Charte over den Danske Oe St Croix i America

Two sheets. Engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:26 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: North at 21 degrees. Ungraduated, with land relief, soundings and shoals marked. Scale in Danish miles. Additional Places: Caribbean, Virgin Islands. Contents Note: The island was laid out in a rectilinear grid of roads and property boundaries, The title cartouche depicts: enslaved people receiving orders from a mounted white overseer; a mother with small children outside a tent; men carrying firewood with a donkey and several buildings including a windmill, There is a population table of white', 'coloured' and 'black' inhabitants.

Object Details

ID: GREN82/2A
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Oxholm, Peter Lotharious; Angelo, G. N.
Places: Caribbean Sea; Virgin Islands of the United States Saint Croix
Date made: 1799
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Each sheet 63 cm x 83 cm
Parts: The map collection of William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister, 1759-1834 (Chart)