[1792]: [ANDREW ELLICOTT]
PLAN of the CITY, intended for the Permanent SEAT of the Governement of the UNITED STATES. Projected agreeable to the direction of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, in pursuance of an ACT of CONGRESS passed the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the Permanent Seat on the bank of the Potowmack" By Peter Charles L'Enfant'

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '560'

Location: Library Of Congress 

Verner, p.64-5 & p.65 (detail of the title); Reps: The Making of Urban America, fig.148, the manuscript attributed to L'Enfant.
 

Scale: [not given]

Thackara & Vallance Separate Publication, [Philadelphia, March, 1792]

From: 'The Universal Asylum And Columbian Magazine', opposite p.155, Philadelphia, March 1792

From: [Tobias Lear] 'Observations On The River Potomack' New York, 1793, and Second Edition, New York, 1794

Verner, 1; Wheat & Brun, 527;

Scale: [not given]

From: 'The Massachusetts Magazine' opposite p.[284], Boston, 1792

Verner, 2; Wheat & Brun, 528.

Scale: [not given]

From: 'The New York Magazine Or Literary Repository' vol. 3, Part VII, opposite p.322, New York, June 1792

Verner, 3; Wheat & Brun, 529.

[1792]: HILL, Samuel: state 1
PLAN / of the City of / Washington / in the Territory of Columbia. / ceded by the States of / VIRGINIA and MARYLAND / to the United States of America, / and by them established as the / SEAT of their GOVERNMENT, / after the Year / MDCCC. / [rule] / Engrav'd by Sam.l Hill Boston. [2b]

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '600 Poles' or '6 Inches' (139 mm) [1d]

Separate Publication, proof , Boston [June / July 1792]

Separate Publication, [Robert Scott, Philadelphia, September 1792], price 2s. 6d.

Source: Based on a version of the original manuscript draught.

The engraving apparently cost $150.00. 

State 1: the proof was apparently without soundings either in the Potomac, or its branch. This omission is noted in two letters from Washington, in which he asked that soundings be inserted, although they apparently never were.

Advertisements in 'Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser' and 'The Gazette of the United States' for September 15th 1792, apparently refer to both this and the Thackara and Vallance plan.

Verner, 4; Wheat & Brun, 530; Stokes & Haskell, (1792) B-114;

[1792]: THACKARA, James & John VALLANCE  state 1
PLAN / of the CITY of / Washington / in the Territory of Columbia, / ceded by the States of / VIRGINIA and MARYLAND / to the / United States OF America, / and by them established as the / SEAT of their GOVERNMENT, / after the Year MDCCC. / [rule] / Engrav'd by Thackara & Vallance Philad.a 1792. [4b]

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '600 Poles' (141mm) / '6 Inches' (141 mm) [2e]

Separate publication, proof  Philadelphia, [June / July 1792]

Source: Based on a version of the original manuscript draught.

The engraving apparently cost $420.00. 

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '600 Poles' (141mm) / '6 Inches' (141 mm) [2e]

Separate Publication Philadelphia [November] 1792, price 4s 8 1/2d. 

Advertisements in 'Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser' and 'The Gazette of the United States' for September 15th 1792, apparently refer to both this and the Samuel Hill plan.

Verner, 5; Wheat & Brun, 531.

Scale: [not given]

From: Winchester 'An Oration On The Discovery Of America.  Delivered In London, October The 12th. 1792, Being Three Hundred Years From The Day On Which Columbus Landed In The New World. [rule] The Second Edition, With An Appendix Containing Among Other Things, A Description Of The City Of Washington, In The District Of Columbia, Illustrated With An Accurate Engraving ... ' London, [1792]

The key is printed on the facing page.

Source: 'The Boston Plan"

Verner, 6.

Scale: [not given]

From: 'The Literary Magazine And British Review' p.49, London, January 1793

Source: The small Thackara & Vallance plan (no.1).

Verner, 7; Phillips, Maps, p.1004.

Scale: 'Scale of 2 Miles' - '2' [4d]

From: 'The Universal Magazine' vol.93, opp. p.41, London, July 1793

[accompanying text, pages 41-43] 'A DESCRIPTION of the Situation and Plan of the CITY of WASHINGTON / in the District of Columbia, in North America, now Building for the / METROPOLIS of the UNITED STATES. / ...' (the text is apparently based on that in the London Magazine') 

Source: 'The Philadelphia Plan'

Verner, 8; Jolly: Maps in British Periodicals, 442; Phillips: Maps, p.1004.

Scale: 'Schaal Van 2 Mijlen' - '2' (95mm)

From: [Anonymous] 'Algemeene Vaderlandsche Letter-Oefeningen, Waarin De Boeken En Schriften ... Voor 1793 ...' A. van der Kroe & J. Yntema, Amsterdam, 1793

Source: Benjamin Baker's Plan, No. 8.

Verner, 9.

Scale: 'Statute Miles' - '1'

From: [Jedidiah Morse] 'Maps Of America To Accompany The American Geography ...', John Stockdale, London, 1794

From: [Jedidiah Morse] 'The American Geography ...'  John Stockdale, London, 1794

Source: 'The Philadelphia Plan'

Verner, 10; Phillips: Maps p.1005.

From: Isaac Weld 'Travels Through The States Of North America ...'  John Stockdale, London, 1799 
(later editions: 1799, 1800, 1810)

Verner, 14 (not noticing the connection); Phillips, Maps, p.1006 (not noticing the connection); Burr, p.141.

[scale] - '2' [4e]

From: 'Almanac De Gotha Pour L'Annee 1795 ...' C.W. Ettinger, Gotha, [1794]

From: 'Gothaischer Hof-Kalendar ...', Gotha, [1794]

Verner, 11; Phillips: Maps, p.1005: Gothaischer.

[Scale] - '2' [4e]

From: 'Almanac De Gotha Pour L'Annee 1795 ...' C.W. ETTINGER, Gotha, [1794]

A second version of the plan, from a newly engraved plate; the engraved title-page and frontispiece of the Almanack are from new plates also.

Not in Verner;

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' / - '600 poles' / - '6 Inches' [4d]

From: Reid 'The American Atlas ...' New York, 1795

From: Reid 'The Atlas For Winterbotham's History Of America ...' New York, 1796

From: Winterbotham 'An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, And Philosophical View Of The United States Of America ...' New York, 1796

Source: 'The Philadelphia Plan'.

The plan was engraved by William Rollinson.

Verner, 12: State 1; Wheat & Brun, 537; Phillips: Maps p.1005.

Locations: 

Atlas 1: Wheat & Brun R 382;

Atlas 2: Wheat & Brun R 383;

Atlas 3: Wheat & Brun R 533.
 

From: John Reid 'The American Atlas ...', New York, 1796

Verner, 12: State 2; Wheat & Brun, 538; Phillips: Maps, p.1005.

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '600 Poles' or '6 Inches' (149mm) [4d]

Separate Publication, [London, 1795]

From: [John Reid] 'The American Atlas ...' H.D. Symonds & J. Ridgeway, London, 1795

Source: Reid's plan;

Verner, 13; Phillips: Maps, p.1005; Ristow: American Maps, p.153.
 

Scale: [miles] - '2' [4d]

From: [?]

Scale: 

From: [Isaac Weld] 'Isaac Weld's Des Jungern Reisen Durch Die Staaten Von Nordamerika, Und Die Povinzen Ober- Und Nieder-Canada, Wahrend Den Jahren 1795, 1796 Und 1797. Aus Dem Englischen Ubersetzt. Mit Kupfern ...' Berlin, 1800

Source: Stockdale's plan of 1794.

Nordenskiold Collection, III, .716, [4]; not in Verner.

[1800 ?]: ANONYMOUS
PLAN / of the City of Washington / in the Territory of Columbia. / ceded by the States of / VIRGINIA and MARYLAND / to the United States of America / and by them established as the / SEAT of their GOVERNMENT / after the Year / MDCCC. [2b]

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '500 Poles' or '5 Inches' (124mm) [2d]

Separate Publication [December, 1800 ?]

Medium: Copperplate Engraving, printed on cloth, with blue ink.

Inner border: 578 x 598; widest surviving: 610 x 640

Verner, 15; Wheat & Brun, 532; Burr, p.137 (ill: printed in red ink).

[1800 ?]: ANONYMOUS 
PLAN / of the City of / WASHINGTON, / in the Territory of Columbia, / ceded by the States of / VIRGINIA and MARYLAND / to the United States of America, / and by them established as the / SEAT of their GOVERNMENT / after the Year / M D CCC. [4b] JW sculpsit.

Inset: [Oval Portrait] 'George Washington President of the United States'

Scale: 'SCALE OF POLES' - '600'

Separate Publication [December, 1800 ?]

Source: 'The Philadelphia Plan', though not printed from the original plate.

Medium: Copperplate Engraving, Printed On Cloth, With Red Ink

Verner, 16; Wheat & Brun, 533.

[1792: DUNLAP, John]
[Plan of the City intended for the Permanent Seat of Government of the United States, projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, passed on the 16th of July, 1790 "establishing the permanent seat on the banks of the Potowmack" By Peter Charles L'Enfant.
Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1792]

Scale: [not known]

Separate Publication ?

Location: no known examples

The title, as given, clearly relates to the original manuscript, produced by Andrew Ellicott, but no printed versions are known with the imprint of Dunlap.

There are three possible, but speculative, explanations for this item:

1: That Dunlap intended to produce such a map, but failed to accomplish this intention.

2: That the map was completed and published, but no examples are recorded.

3: That this reference refers to the Thackara and Vallance plan. Both men were engravers, rather than printers, and the printer of their plan (if they did not do it) is unknown. Against this possibility, is the absence of Dunlap's name on the map.

If Thackara and Vallance were sub-contracting the actual printing, this might provide a more reasonable explanation of the delay in their completing the project.

Both the Thackara and Vallance and Hill plans were advertised in 'Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser' in September 1792, by a number of booksellers in Philadelphia (though not John Dunlap) and this may be a cause of confusion.

Wheat & Brun, 534: based on Evan, 24471.

[1796: Thomas FREEMAN]
[A Plan of the City of Washington.  By Thomas Freeman, Surveyor of the Territory of Columbia and City of Washington.]

Scale: [not known]

Separate Publication ?

Location: no recorded examples

Apparently, Freeman issued proposals, in June 1796, for a plan of Washington, but no example is known.

Wheat & Brun, 536: based on Evans, 30452.