Existing comment:
Emanuel Bowen (ca. 1694–1767) Robert Sayer (1725–1794) and John Bennett (d. 1787)
A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands, Divided According to the Preliminary Articles of Peace, Signed at Versailles, 20 Jan. 1783
London, 1783
Engraving, hand-colored
New-York Historical Society Library
The publishing firm of Sayer & Bennett were operating with a "this just in" mentality when they produced this map in January 1783, eight months before the Treaty of Paris was signed. The map is a reworking of a 1779 printing of a map Emanuel Bowen created in 1763. In their eagerness to print and sell the new map, Sayer & Bennett opted not to remove what are articles of the 1763 Treaty of Paris. |