Author:   Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques   Date:  

1591

Title:   Floridae Americae Provinciae   BIB:   2, 10, 6
Jaques Le Moyne de Morgues was a French painter who traveled in the capacity of official artist with the French Huguenots who attempted to colonize Florida between 1562 and 1565. Their ill-fated colony, named Fort Caroline and shown as Carolina on this map, was destroyed by the Spanish in 1565. Le Moyne de Morgues died in 1588 and Theodor de Bry acquired the manuscript of this map and other drawings by Le Moyne de Morgues posthumously. De Bry, a map engraver and publisher, embellished the map with an elaborate cartouche, a compass rose, a sea monster spouting water from dual blowholes and a scale bar enclosed in a cartouche topped by a stylized representation of a compass. De Bry published this map in Part II of his series entitled Les Grands Voyages. This volume was entitled Brevis Narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae Provincia Gallis acciderunt. The map is filled with cartographic inaccuracies such as the shape of Florida, the size of Cuba, and the placement of what appears to be Lake Okeechobee. The map was later adapted by Hondius and published in his 1606 edition of Mercator's Atlas.

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