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Joshua Fisher1776 Navigational chart/map of the Delaware bay and river including Philadelphia1776
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JOSHUA FISHER
(AMERICAN, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)
A Chart of Delaware Bay and River, 1776
Printed for John Bennet and Robert Sayer, London
Engraving on paper, 19 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches
FRAMED: 36 x 27 1/2 inches (approx.)
PROVENANCE: Descended in the family of Robert M. Patterson (1743-1824) of Philadelphia
This item was in a group of papers retained by Robert M. Patterson, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, which tell the story of the construction of earthwork defenses of the city of Philadelphia during the War of 1812 by volunteers under Patterson's direction. The vertical crease at the center of this map, which has been lined, indicates that it was probably bound in a volume of the atlas The North-American Pilot, Part the Second (London, 1777).
Joshua Fisher, a native of Lewes, Delaware (then the “three lower counties” of Pennsylvania), made the first navigational chart of the Delaware Bay in 1756. In 1775 Fisher produced an expanded chart that included the Delaware River to just beyond Philadelphia. The most important eighteenth-century map of the Delaware Bay, it was used by those sailing ships to Philadelphia and was sold in different editions in European ports. This is the second English edition.
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