Dockside At Virginia Tobacco Warehouse Illustration

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Dockside At VirginiaTobacco WarehouseIllustration
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Abstract

This document is an example of a cartouche, a decorative emblem that was often included in published maps until the nineteenth century. A cartouche usually contained the map’s title, its date and place of publication, the names of the mapmakers, and a dedication. This extravagant cartouche provides an imagined interpretation of what a mid-eighteenth-century tobacco wharf in Virginia may have looked like.

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