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This is a beautiful hand-colored map depicting the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland by Baltimore native Fielding Lucas Jr. The map includes a street plan of Baltimore with prominent buildings and streets labeled. The map of Maryland shows various counties, rivers, and key geographical features with different colors indicating different counties.
The inset map of Baltimore highlights the city’s layout, including the Basin, City Dock, and major roads, providing a comprehensive view of the city's urban structure during the early 19th century. The map’s scale is in miles, and the longitudinal references are taken from Washington.
Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854) was a prominent American cartographer, engraver, artist, and public figure during the first half of the 19th century.
Lucas was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and moved to Philadelphia as a teenager, before settling in Baltimore. There he launched a successful cartographic career. Lucas's first atlas was announced in early- to mid-1812, with production taking place between September 1812 and December of 1813, by which point the engravings were complete. Bound copies of the atlas -- A new and elegant general atlas: Containing maps of each of the United States -- were available early in the next year, beating Carey to market by about two months. Lucas later published A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World in the early 1820s.
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