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Lot Number: 204
Click for a Printable PageSign-in to Bid or Register to Bid Estimate Range: $8,000 - $10,000 |
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1755 Rare Historic Original First State French Printing of the Fry - Jefferson Map of Virginia, Paris: Robert Vaugondy By Joshua Fry (1699-1754) & Peter Jefferson (1708-1757) |
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1755 A First State Printing of the Famous Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia, taking its name from the surveyor Joshua Fry (1699-1754) who preceded George Washington as a Colonel in the Virginia Colonial Militia and Surveyor Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), father of Thomas Jefferson. Engraving with Original Hand-Color, Paris: Robert Vaugondy, State 1: Dated 1755, "Gravee E. Haussard", Lord Fairfax line shown and Hand-colored in red, Framed, Choice Extremely Fine. Arguably the most important 18th-century Map of Virginia. This is an original 1755 French, First State Engraving with original Hand-Coloring. Is it identified as a "First State" because of four unique indicators: 1. It is dated 1755, 2. Labelled "Gravee E. Haussard," 3. Has the Lord Fairfax property line delineated, and 4. The Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary is also delineated up to the Monongahela River.The condition of this 270-year old map is excellent. There are no tears, stains, or marks, the laid period paper is solid and well printed. Its combined two large sheets are perfectly affixed as originally designed, measuring about 26.5 x 20 inches and is fully visible. Professionally framed in a modern contemporary period style ornate wood with gold gilt. Both the front and back sides of this map are fully displayed and visible, being protected between two layers special UV Plexiglas. Printed at the opening days of the French and Indian War, the Fry-Jefferson map played a highly significant role in defining the westward boundaries of the sparsely populated American colonies. Border areas actually identify families of settlers like the McKays and Smiths, and the areas owned by Lord Fairfax and the 19 year-old George Washington are marked. This first state published map was important in that it was the first map to show the interior regions of Virginia, beyond the coastal tidewater. It included the major plantations along Virginia's rivers by family name, and showed the entire Virginia river system, as well as the parallel orientation of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains framing the Shenandoah Valley. This Fry-Jefferson map had a significant impact in defining the westward boundaries of the American colonies and played an important role in the lives of at least two American Founding Fathers: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Colonel Washington's well-known service in the Ohio Campaign against the French was intertwined with the fate of Joshua Fry. After Fry's death at Cumberland in 1754, George Washington was commissioned by Virginia Governor Dinwiddie to serve in his place. Thus, in 1755, Washington joined British General Braddock's ill-fated military campaign to counter French military advances in the Ohio Valley. Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter Jefferson, a surveyor, had worked with Fry on a number of important boundary issues. Their collaboration led to the Fry-Jefferson map of 1751, a later version of which Thomas Jefferson enclosed in editions of his only book titled, "Notes on the State of Virginia" (1787). George Washington used the colonial highways marked on the map in his travels between Mount Vernon and the Shenandoah Valley; Thomas Jefferson used the roads marked on the map in his frequent travels to Philadelphia. Their extraordinary undertaking was based on actual measurements and surveys of the land. The resultant map was renowned for its accuracy. It was consulted by British generals during the Seven Years War and twenty years later during the American Revolution. Our estimate may prove conservative for this exceptional Fry - Jefferson Map of Virginia. Lord Fairfax's headquarters at White Post are identified at what is modern-day White Post. Slightly to the north, this map identifies George Washington's "Bullskin tracts" purchased from Lord Fairfax in partial payment for George’s surveying work. Even though he was only nineteen years old, Washington already owned almost a thousand acres in the Shenandoah Valley, some being in Winchester. This map, therefore, can be said to be one of the earliest indications of George Washington's international fame, if it is not the first time his name appeared in public printing! Fry and Jefferson's published Map dominated cartographic representations of Virginia well into the Nineteenth Century. Subsequent cartographers incorporated its features. An extensive list of derivative maps can be found at: https//www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/fry-jefferson/derivatives.asp Thomas Jefferson edited the 1755 map for publication in his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1787, and often said his father's "map was of more value than the book in which it appeared." (Peden, 1954, xviii. n. 24) Time has proven that true-the maps are rarely found in copies of Jefferson's book, and fetch prices in auctions of around $30,000. Later edition maps that feature the English cartouche depicting Virginia's tobacco trade are also highly valued, even if they were not edited by Thomas Jefferson or included in copies of Notes. Referring to the Vaugondy series of Fry-Jefferson printings, Geographicus.com points out, "this map was engraved by Delahaye in 1755 for inclusion in Vaugondy's Atlas Universel. The etching of the cartouche was done by the scientific illustrator and engraver Elisabeth Haussard, whose imprint appeared on the first two states of the map. When the publication of the Vaugondy Atlas was taken over by Jean-Baptiste Fortin in 1778, the engraver Charles-Jacques Groux replaced Haussard's signature with his own." There were additional changes that indicate subsequent states of the engraving, and in 1787 the Vaugondy maps were sold to Charles-Francois Delamarche, who "defrauded Vaugondy's widow and may even have killed her." The fifth and final state of this popular map was printed in 1793. Thomas Jefferson edited the 1755 map for publication in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” published in 1787, and often said his father's "map was of more value than the book in which it appeared." (Peden, 1954, xviii. n. 24). Time has proven that true-the maps are rarely found in copies of Jefferson's book, and fetch prices in auctions of around $30,000. Later edition maps that feature the English cartouche depicting Virginia's tobacco trade are also highly valued, even if they were not edited by Thomas Jefferson or included in copies of Notes. Referring to the Vaugondy series of Fry-Jefferson printings, Geographicus.com points out, "this map was engraved by Delahaye in 1755 for inclusion in Vaugondy's Atlas Universel. The etching of the cartouche was done by the scientific illustrator and engraver Elisabeth Haussard, whose imprint appeared on the first two states of the map. When the publication of the Vaugondy Atlas was taken over by Jean-Baptiste Fortin in 1778, the engraver Charles-Jacques Groux replaced Haussard's signature with his own." There were additional changes that indicate subsequent states of the engraving, and in 1787 the Vaugondy maps were sold to Charles-Francois Delamarche, who "defrauded Vaugondy's widow and may even have killed her." The fifth and final state of this popular map was printed in 1793 and is vastly more common. |
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Lot Number: 204
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Estimate Range: $8,000 - $10,000 |
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