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Holm, Thomas Campanius, approximately 1670-1702

Map, Nova Svecia hodie dicta Pensylvania

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Map of New Sweden in Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America : som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania].
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Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702

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Engraving depicts an exchange between Native Americans and colonial settlers of New Sweden on the Delaware River. The artist, Thomas Campanious Holm, had never been to America, but created the scene based on the manuscripts of his grandfather, Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony.
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