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Re: Madison's map (of Richmond?) 1805
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Jeffrey Ruggles <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:06:16 -0400
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Another copy of the map, an 1818 edition, is at Virginia Historical Society. Alexander 
Weddell attributed the inset engraving of Richmond to Saint-Memin in "Richmond in Old 
Prints," based in part on an inscription (in reverse) on a rock in the image. Saint-Memin is 
known for his profile portraits, including an important group in Richmond in 1807, produced 
with the assistance of a mechanism called the physionotrace. Thus the possibility exists that 
the Richmond view was made with the assistance of a mechanism. The view includes the 
Council Chamber building, perhaps the only image of it, and also Council Chamber Hill in all 
its glory, before it was carved down in the late 1820s-1840s period.

Jeffrey Ruggles

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