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A generall [sic.] chart of the South Sea from the River of Plate to Dampiers Streights on ye coast of New Guinea

Map shows islands islands in the "South Sea" and partial eastern coast lines of land forms including New Guinea and Japan; lower portion of North America including the eastern coast as far north as New England, the islands of the Caribbean, Central America, and all but the eastern portion of South America. California shown as an island. Includes cartouche and one historical note of discovery for "Staten Land" in the South Sea. Scale not given.

Date: [1690..1710]

Creator: Keating, Christopher

Item Type: Map

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A map of a large country newly discovered in the Northern America situated between New Mexico and the frozen sea : together with the course of the great river Meschasipi.

Map shows areas of Native American habitation, some settlements. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:11,500,00].

Date: 1698

Creator: Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent.

Item Type: Map

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of… more

Date: [1695..1800]

Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two Mourners and Hope at Washingtons Grave]

Engraving by Boston printmaker Thomas Clarke showing a man and woman weeping into handkerchiefs in front of the grave of George Washington. Washington's monument includes his face engraved below a cherubim and the epitaph "There is Reft in Heaven" and is set at the foot of a weeping willow. The two figures are being consoled by a figure of Hope, who stands by an anchor and points to heaven.