The first image to carry his name was a view of New York City dated 1849
and settlers passingthrough the region
making it a valuable resource for historians
Tussac wrote of this plant:
Mitchell relied heavily on maps of New France by prominent French cartographers Jean-Jacques Bellin and Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville
Philip Lea's New Map of New England, New York, New Jarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland and Virginia Artists_Dr. Robert John Thornton The first image to carryLEA, Philip (c. 1660 1700). A New Map of New England, New York, New Jarsey, Pensilvania, Maryland and Virginia by Philip Lea. Engraved map with original hand color in part. London: 1698. (Third State, Lea Imprint & Che Sea Peake Bay is now named). 17 1 2" x 21 1 8" sheet, 27" x 31" framed. Thornton, Morden & Lea's map is the first obtainable state of the finest general map of England's American colonies to date. The map is one of the earliest to