Plan of New Orleans & its Environs, A

Sub-Title
Containing 2600 Fathoms in Length by 1850
Subject

New Orleans; some public buildings located; Faubourg St. Marie (St. Mary); landowners outside French Quarter are identified.

Date
1803
Mapmaker
Boqueta de Woiseri, John L.
Place of Publication

New Orleans, La.

Accession Number
M00558
Condition
Good. Was conserved 1981 by John Sellstedt, Pottsdown, Pa.
Curatorial Notes

B + W negative stored in Registrar's office. See "Encyclopedia if New Orleans Artists" for additional information re Woiseri. See also 12421.019; T0055.1997.0304-6)

Exhibition History
1996 Sep - Mar 30, 1999, So Much More than Just A Map.
1981: hung in Cabildo, Mayor's Parlor
Insets
Plan of the Environs of New Orleans, Six Miles in Circumference; [Lower Mississippi River Valley from Illinois to to the Gulf of Mexico]; engraving, "Esplanade or Place of Arms" [Jackson Square].
Notes

The first expansion of the city of New Orleans beyond the boundaries of the Vieux Carre was to the west into an area known as Faubourg St. Marie (St. Mary). Published in the year of the Louisiana Purchase, this map features an illustration depicting the enlightenment of Europe by the newly-expanded United States. A seated Roman warrior gazes upward toward an eagle in flight. The bird carries in its beak a United States flag being fifteen stars, the number of states in the union in 1796. Some experts believe the cartouche signifies the United States enlightenment of Indians. According to this interpretation the figure represents a highly classicized rendition of Native Americans.

Size
27 1/8 x 18 3/4
Storage
c01d01