Description:
Manuscript map book (8 3/4 x 7 in.; 222 x 179 mm), finely executed in pen and ink, 56 leaves, including calligraphic title page, 32 pages of calligraphic text and map titles, and 19 full-page maps, 13 partially hand colored in outline. Most maps include very fine figural or ornamental title cartouches. Some blank leaves evidently reserved for never completed maps; occasional minor browning or staining. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards; shaken, with a number of leaves loose. A remarkable example of cartographic schoolgirl art. A note on the front free endpaper explains, "Map Book of Emily Draper. (Wife of John P. Haven) born Dec 6, 1803. died July 20, 1865. She was aged seventeen [sic] when she executed the work in thisbook in 1822. Gift of her daughter, Mrs. Emily Haven Conaut, wife of Judge Chester C. Conaut." The maps depict the United States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Condition: Manuscript map book (8 3/4 x 7 in.; 222 x 179 mm), finely executed in pen and ink, 56 leaves, including calligraphic title page, 32 pages of calligraphic text and map titles, and 19 full-page maps, 13 partially handcolored in outline, most with very fine figural or ornamental title cartouches. Some blank leaves evidently reserved for never completed maps; occasional minor browning or staining. Contemporary red-morocco-backed marbled boards; shaken, with a number of leaves loose.
Label Text:
This remarkable example of cartographic schoolgirl art contains 19 maps depicting the United States, New England states, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Each is finely executed in pen and ink, with ornamental title cartouches and text; most are hand colored in outline. Emily was the first Draper child born in Greenfield. Her older sisters, Eliza and Hannah, established a school there for young ladies in 1818. Emily most likely created her atlas of maps at that school, possibly basing them on examples printed in Boston in a school atlas by J. A. Cummings. Emily became the preceptress of Deerfield Academy in 1830, and later taught at Miss Draper’s Seminary for Young Ladies, founded by another sister, in Hartford CT.
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