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English: A New & Accurate Map of Mexico or New Spain together with California, New Mexico &c
Description
English: The cartouche of this map of New Spain depicts a European mishandling a couple of Native American captives. The image dates at least back to 1729 when Peter Van der Aa included an identical image on his cartouche of a map of Mexico or New Spain appearing in Abraham du Bois' La Geographie Moderne, published in Leiden at that date. Such images, repeated over and over, contributed to the Spanish "Black Legend" – the idea that the Spanish treated Indians worse than their Anglo-Protestant peers, many of whom behaved equally bad in reality. Bowen's inset depicts the Galápagos Islands based upon descriptions and charts by English sea captains William A. Cowley and Woodes Rogers. Despite the "modern" scientific jargon with reference to "astronomical observations", English engraver, cartographer, publisher and print-seller Emanuel Bowen, even as Geographer to His Majesty, did not have access to accurate field information for much of the territories depicted – no one would until the mid-nineteenth century. His map shows Santa Fe along the 101st meridian instead of its actual location along the 105th, with the result that New Mexico lies four degrees of longitude east of its true location, and the area of present west Texas is considerably condensed.
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Emanuel Bowen  (1694–1767)  wikidata:Q330967
 
Emanuel Bowen
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Description British cartographer, printmaker and engraver
Date of birth/death 1694 Edit this at Wikidata 1767 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kingdom of England London
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creator QS:P170,Q330967
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections, Gift of Virginia Garrett
 Geotemporal data
Map location Mexico
New Spain
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Author
Emanuel Bowen  (1694–1767)  wikidata:Q330967
 
Emanuel Bowen
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Description British cartographer, printmaker and engraver
Date of birth/death 1694 Edit this at Wikidata 1767 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kingdom of England London
Work location
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creator QS:P170,Q330967
Place of publication London
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Dimensions height: 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 43 cm (16.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,43U174728
Medium colored engraving on paper
colored etching print on paper
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English: Drawn from the best Modern Maps & Charts & Regulated by Astronl. Observns.
artwork-references Huseman, Ben W. (2016) Enlightenment Mapmakers and the Southwest Borderlands, Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, no. 47 , p. 37


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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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