PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 As a cartographic claim to

As a cartographic claim to a contested area it is part of the cartographic war between Britain and France that later would later turn into the actual war of 1756-1763

but its beak is not nearly so disproportionate to its size

Henry Rogers Broughton

and with the dazzling red color of the monstrous peduncles which have the shape and size of medium pears or apples

working closely with many of the leading geographers of his day

PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 As a cartographic claim toPIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710 1777),after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America Mezzotint with exceptional original color London: John Bowles, 1768 13 1 2 x 19 7 8 sheet Thomas Pownall, a British statesman who arrived to America in 1753 and took positions in colonial government (Governor of Massachusetts,1757; Governor of South Carolina, 1760), organized leading print dealers in London to publish a series of plates