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Virginia Item et Floridae
(Renaissance Europe )
This combines in one map the information from colonies founded by Walter Raleigh and Jacques le Moyne. It also contains rudimentary (and one of the earliest) depictions of the Chesapeake Bay.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, May 15, 1980, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2011, by gift.
Geographies
Netherlands, Amsterdam
(Place of Origin)
USA, Virginia (Place Mentioned)
Chesapeake Bay (Place Depicted)
Measurements
Framed: 21 1/4 × 26 3/4 × 1 in. (54 × 68 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jean and Sidney Silber, 2011
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
93.160