Bodleian Plate

The Bodleian Plate is a copperplate depicting several colonial buildings of 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as several types of native flora, fauna, and American Indians. Following its 1929 rediscovery in the archives of the Bodleian Library, it was used extensively in John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg. The plate has been tied to the Williamsburg resident William Byrd II and may have been produced by the English illustrator Eleazar Albin and the engraver John Carwitham. It is dated to the 1730s.

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