LEROUGE, G.L.

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LEROUGE, G.L.
Philadelphia by Easburn Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. Paris, Le Rouge, (1777). Black and white. Formerly laminated on strong paper. The river was watercolored in green at the time. Strong brown spots due to the glue. The date 1777 was added to the pen under the title. - 235 x 375 mm. Rare plan of Philadelphia by Benjamin Eastburn, after the Clarkson-Biddle map, published in Paris by Georges- Louis Lerouge. Key, at right, identifies 23 locations. The date 1777 added in ink in an early hand.  "The map shown here shows Philadelphia circa 1776. The city was at that time the meeting place of the Continental Congress, making it the capital of the new American republic. Based on another map by Benjamin Easburn, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, the map was drawn by Georges-Louis Le Rouge (b. 1712), King Louis XV's geographer, and printed in Paris in 1777. Oriented with the north to the right, it includes an index of local points of interest, including docks, streets, homes, parks, cemeteries, ferries and forts, as well as a library, school, prison, parade ground, hospice and hospital. It also indicates the location of churches of various denominations, including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, German Calvinist, Presbyterian, Anabaptist, Moravian, and Swedish. Several assembly houses and other institutions related to the predominantly Quaker community (here spelled "Quaquer") are also included. The map shows the Delaware River, Windmill Island, and part of the New Jersey coast on the other side of the river from Philadelphia.
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