Old Map of Mexico
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Old map of Mexico and New Spain, published by Mathew Carey in the early nineteenth century
Mexico, Texas and New Mexico share the sheet on this map of New Spain, with the long peninsula of California to the west and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Coloured boundaries divide the mainland, and an inset carries the geography south through Central America towards Darien.
The title Mexico or New Spain and the old regional names record a landscape very different from today’s national borders. Reproduced on textured fine art paper, it makes a rewarding print for anyone with ties to Mexico or an interest in the history of North America.
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Historical Background
Mexico or New Spain belongs to Mathew Carey’s Philadelphia atlas publishing of the early nineteenth century. The map design is documented in his 1814 General Atlas. It places Mexico within the wider geography of Spanish New Spain, with Texas and New Mexico still shown in the same cartographic setting.
Map Details
- Original title: Mexico or New Spain
- Publisher: Mathew Carey, Philadelphia
- Period: Early nineteenth century; the design appears in Carey’s 1814 General Atlas
- Area shown: Mexico, adjoining northern territories and Central America
- Inset: Southern Central America towards Costa Rica, Veragua and Darien
- Prime meridians: Philadelphia and London
- Visible details: The California peninsula, Texas, New Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico and coloured regional boundaries
- Product type: Fine art reproduction of a historical atlas map
Names and Boundaries of New Spain
The paired names in the title are central to reading this map. New Spain was a Spanish colonial jurisdiction, whose northern territories extended into areas now within the United States. The outline therefore cannot be read as a map of the modern Mexican republic.
New Mexico runs north around Santa Fe, while Texas occupies the northeastern part of the mainland. Sonora, Durango and other named divisions appear farther south. Fine lines trace rivers and settlements through these territories, with short strokes indicating mountain ranges.
Two Meridians and a Southern Inset
The longitude scales use Philadelphia along the top edge and London below. This is a distinctive detail of the map’s American publishing context: readers could locate the same place through two reference meridians.
The inset in the upper right continues the geography southwards through Central America. It allows the sheet to include the narrow lands towards Darien without reducing the scale of the main map. Alongside the California peninsula, the Gulf coast and the coloured boundaries, it gives this engraving a character quite different from a modern outline map of Mexico.