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Continental School, possibly Italian, 18th century, oil on canvas half length portrait of a lady seated with a brush in one hand and holding the corner of a classical drawing in the other, more artist tools on work surface. Subject with dark hair adorned by jeweled and feathered headdress, green velvet and gold brocade formal […]

Thomas Sword Good (United Kingdom, 1787 – 1872) oil on board titled "The Poacher" depicting a man standing by a river with a fishing net in his hands and fish by his feet, with a bridge and woods in the background. Signed and titled en verso on an old tag "The Poacher by T. S. […]

Matthew Carey and Benjamin Warner: THE SOUTHERN STATES AND MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY. Published 1812-1816. Scarce engraved map depicting the Southeastern United States, including Tennessee and Kentucky, prior to Alabama and Mississippi Statehood and the Adams Onis Treaty; the border between South Carolina and Georgia is undefined, and Florida is divided into West Florida and East Florida. […]

John Cary: A NEW MAP OF PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, CONTAINING THE CAROLINAS and GEORGIA, ALSO THE FLORIDAS AND PART OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS & C., 1821. Scarce map, the only edition of Cary's map of the Southeastern U.S. to include the Alabama and Mississippi Territories. Also includes Tennessee spelled Tenassee, […]

Three (3) French and Indian War period maps. 1st item: John Gibson: THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN NORTH AMERICA, Laid Down Agreeable To The Proclamation of Oct. 7, 1763. Published in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, 1763. Hand colored map depicts the borders of the Coastal States including boundaries established at the end of the French and […]

Antonio Zatta: IL PAESE DE CHERACHESI CON LA PARTE OCCIDENTAL DELLA CAROLINA SETTENTRIONALE, E DELLA VIRGINIA. Section of the Italian edition of Mitchell's 1773 map of North America, from Storia Dell'America Settentrionale… by Antonio Zatta, John Mitchell, G.T. Raynal (Venice, 1778). Map with outline color engraved on laid paper, depicts a portion of the Southeastern […]

A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WITH THE ADJOINING TERRITORIES by J. Russell, 1794. London: H.D. Symonds. Includes most of Tennessee, referred to as the "Southwestern Territory" on this map. North of the Ohio River is part of the Northwest Territory, with Fort Washington shown. South of Tennessee and Davidson Counties, is "Reserved for […]

Cyrus Harris, A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THE TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES from Jedidiah Morse's The American Universal Geography. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1796. Engraving by Amos Doolittle. Indian boundaries and the Southern boundary of the military reservation set aside for veterans of the North Carolina troops are shown. […]

1877 hand drawn and partially colored map of a section of Memphis, Tennessee by Charles Christopher Burke (1815-1901, County Surveyor 1870-1884), depicting numerous city landmarks including the State Female College, and the Bayou Gayosa (buried underground c. 1910 under the area now home to the St. Jude's campus and Danny Thomas Boulevard), McLemore and Race […]

THE LONDON MAGAZINE OR GENTLEMAN'S MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER, published February 1760, containing the fold out map by Thomas Kitchen, "engraved from an Indian draught" and entitled A NEW MAP OF THE CHEROKEE NATION WITH THE NAMES OF THE TOWNS AND RIVERS THEY ARE SITUATED ON. Features western North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Northern Alabama, and Northern […]