money (equivalent to about five thousand dollars in presentday currency; or possibly somewhat more since the devaluation of the gold dollar).[1] Quite unfortunately Herrman left no written record of his travels during this period. Considering the vast amount of wild and only half-explored territory that he had to traverse, we can lament the fact that he did not keep some kind of diary, which today would be of incalculable worth, telling us so much about the people and conditions in the out-of-the-way places in Maryland and Virginia. The work was finished in 1670 by Herrman’s “only labour and endeavor”, as he himself states.
Probably the next three years were taken up with the placing together of all the many sketches and charts; and the map as we know it now plotted. The original drawing was sent to England in 1673[2] and engraved by an artist by the name of William Faithhorne. According to Thomas Čapek, William Faithhorne in 1654 was living in the same house near Temple Bar, London with Wenceslaus Hollar, the eminent Bohemian engraver and etcher.[3] The Herrman map is said to be the only extant work of Faithhorne.[4] The map was dedicated to King Charles II.[5] The following advertisement appears in the London Gazette for 1674, No. 873:
- ↑ Phillips, P. Lee. Rare Map of Va. & Md. p. 5.
- ↑ The whereabouts of the orig. MS. map is not known.
- ↑ Čapek, p. 10, citing for his authority, p. 131 of George Vertue’s biography of Hollar.
- ↑ Attached to the original copy of the Herrman map in the North Library, British Museum is a small note apparently written in the late 17th century or early 18th century on fly leaf. “Virginia and Maryland, surveyed by Herrman, engraved by Faithorne. fo. 1673 with head of Herrman by Faithorne. This is the only map known to be engraved by Faithorne & is of the greatest rarity. It is so beautifully executed as to make one regret that there should be no other of the same hand.”
- ↑ Vincent, F. Hist. Delaware, 1870, Vol. I. p. 373.
