This map was made by a German mapmaker, Lotter, and he made it in response to great interest back in Germany about the area depicted. Eastern Pennsylvania was, after all, one of the principal places in which Germans emigrating to the Americas settled, and there would be more to come in part because of maps like this. They answered a felt need in Europe to tell a little bit more about what it is that this “New World” would look like if they came. In the upper left-hand corner, is a huge cartouche – a colorful cartouche reflecting William Penn trading with indigenous people, and running through the rest of the cartouche are a variety of animals – a wild turkey in the middle, a stag with great horns in the upper-right – and throughout there is activity that immediately draws the eye.
Another interesting feature of the map is the distortion of New England, which may, in part, have been intentional or, in part, simply for lack of knowledge. But New York is squeezed beyond recognition. Connecticut, the same. Rhode Island is a mere blip. Massachusetts is highly narrowed and, remarkably, Cape Cod is reflected as being part of Connecticut. So, a lot of re-organizing of the understanding of this part of the world was yet to come. But as a map, and as a piece of attractive propaganda for coming to this part of the New World, the Lotter map is hard to surpass. “Cartouche, in architecture, ornamentation in scroll form, applied especially to elaborate frames around tablets or coats of arms. By extension, the word is applied to any oval shape or even to a decorative shield, whether scroll-like in appearance or not.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/art/cartouche Accessed 9 Mar. 2021.
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Ramani hii ilitengenezwa na mchoraji wa ramani wa Ujerumani, Lotter, na alifanya hivyo kwa kujibu maslahi makubwa nyuma nchini Ujerumani kuhusu eneo lililoonyeshwa. Pennsylvania ya Mashariki ilikuwa mojawapo ya maeneo makuu ambayo Wajerumani walihamia Amerika na kulikuwa na zaidi ya kuja kwa sababu ya ramani kama hii. Walijibu haja iliyohisiwa huko Ulaya ya kusema kidogo zaidi juu ya kile ambacho ni kwamba hii <unk> Ulimwengu Mpya <unk> ungeonekana kama wangekuja. Katika kona ya juu ya kushoto, ni cartouche kubwa - cartouche rangi kutafakari William Penn biashara na wenyeji, na kukimbia kwa njia ya mapumziko ya cartouche ni aina ya wanyama - wild turkey katikati, nyati na pembe kubwa katika juu-kulia - na katika sehemu zote kuna shughuli kwamba mara moja huvutia jicho. Sehemu nyingine ya kushangaza ya ramani hiyo ni kupotoshwa kwa eneo la New England, jambo ambalo huenda lilitokea kimakusudi au kwa sababu ya kukosa ujuzi. Lakini New York imefungwa hivi kwamba haiwezi kutambuliwa. Connecticut, sawa. Rhode Island ni sehemu ndogo tu. Massachusetts ni sana narrowed na, kwa kushangaza, Cape Cod ni kutafakari kama kuwa sehemu ya Connecticut. Kwa hiyo, kulikuwa na mambo mengi ya kurekebisha uelewevu wa sehemu hiyo ya ulimwengu ambayo hayakuwa yametukia. Lakini kama ramani, na kama kipande cha propaganda ya kuvutia kwa ajili ya kuja katika sehemu hii ya Ulimwengu Mpya, ramani Lotter ni vigumu kuzidi. Cartouche, katika usanifu, mapambo katika fomu ya kitabu, kutumika hasa kwa kuunda muafaka karibu na vidonge au coats ya silaha. "Kwa kuongezea, neno hilo linatumika kwa umbo lolote la mviringo au hata kwa ngao ya mapambo, iwe inaonekana kama kitabu au la. <unk> Encyclopaedia Britannica, https: www.britannica.com <unk> art> cartouche <unk> Accessed 9 Mar. <unk>" 2021 - Mwezi wa Mwezi Kwa maelezo zaidi, angalia rekodi ya orodha: https: library.villanova.edu/FindRecord:1935659