![]() (Venice: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, 1688). Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was one of Italy’s most famous and greatest cartographers and served as French King Louis XIV’s royal map and globe-maker. Shown here is Coronelli’s cornerstone map of North America, published in 1688. Typical of Coronelli’s style, the map is richly embellished. The title cartouche depicts gods blessing European expansion, and vignettes of America’s first peoples and other creatures are featured throughout. Perhaps most infamously, this map depicts La Salle’s misplacement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, some 600 miles west of its true location.Ĭourtesy of the University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections, #0568 142/7 Disc 81.Ĭartographically, Coronelli’s map draws from information obtained by noted French explorers Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. View Full-size Image Nicolás de Lafora (ca. Mapa de toda la Frontera de los Dominios del Rey en la America Septentrional… (ca. ![]() Pen-and-ink and watercolor manuscript, 26 x 50 in. Believed to be an 1816 copy of a 1771 edition map. Nicolás Lafora’s and Joseph de Urrutia’s Mapa de toda la Frontera geographically reveals Spain’s imagination of Texas during the eighteenth century, with drawn lines enclosing “Provencia De Los Tejas,” or land of the Tejas, stretching from western Louisiana through the heart of East Texas to the San Antonio area. The Spanish geographic use of the word Tejas was broad and indefinite, but initially it applied to the Neches-Angelina river valleys, where the southwestern Caddoan tribes of the Hasinai Confederacy lived. The area gradually expanded westward to include San Antonio and eventually all the territory now included within the State of Texas.Ĭourtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. View Full-size Image Juan Pedro Walker (1781-ca. Texas, Route de Nacogdoches au Rio Trinidad, J. W.Ī circa 1828 copy of a circa 1806 route map attributed to Walker, contained in “Voyage au Mexique: Itineraires, ports cotes, baies, etc. 7” within the Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, 1813-1847 (WA MSS S-302).
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