The Continents
Jansson's New England and New Netherland
New England, New Netherland and Virginia, on one coast.
- Map
- Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia
- Mapmaker
- Jan Jansson
- Date
- 1638
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Three colonies share one coast on this sheet: New England, New Belgium, which the Dutch called New Netherland, and Virginia. Jan Jansson printed it in the Atlas Novus that he and Henricus Hondius published in Amsterdam in 1638, and the printer's signature Pppp on the back places it in the book. Relief is drawn as small hills inland. Dutch and English claims sit side by side on the same shoreline here. A map of who thought they owned the coast, drawn by one of the parties.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
