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C1882
Wyld’s outline Chart from England to Austral…
Mapmaker:
Rare cased pricking chart by Jame Wyld, published 1882. The title specifies its purpose “for pricking off a Ship’s track”—referring to the navigational practice of marking a vessel’s daily position by making small pinpricks or pencil marks on the chart. … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Wyld’s outline Chart from England to Australia & China for the purpose of pricking off a Ship’s Track.
Date:
C1882
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, cased map in original case. Case edges reinforced with Japanese paper. Map dissected and laid on linen, as issued.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
1004mm
x 655mm
Paper Size:
1015mm
x 680mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1882
Description:
Rare cased pricking chart by Jame Wyld, published 1882. The title specifies its purpose “for pricking off a Ship’s track”—referring to the navigational practice of marking a vessel’s daily position by making small pinpricks or pencil marks on the chart. As ships progressed along their route, officers would plot calculated positions, creating a visual record of the voyage. The outline format of the continents, showing only coastlines and key landmarks without excessive detail, provided an ideal surface for practical shipboard use.
The map depicts critical maritime passages through Europe, Africa, the Arabian Sea, India, and Southeast Asia, extending to China and the Australian continent. Housed in its original black slipcase with decorative marbled interior papers, the case bears a printed label identifying “James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen” at Charing Cross.
Collections:
State Library Victoria: 9912494213607636
Australian National Maritime Museum: 00033898
State Library Victoria: 9912494213607636
Australian National Maritime Museum: 00033898
James Hope Wyld (1812 - 1887)
Wyld the younger was born in 1812 and was a highly-regarded British mapmaker known for producing maps with the most recently-acquired information. He was educated at Woolwich, in preparation for joining the army, but at 18 he joined his father, James Wyld the elder, in the map publishing business. Like his father, he was held in high esteem and would come to hold 17 European orders of merit during his life. He showed a flare for business and when his father died in 1836, he became the sole proprietor. In 1839, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and appointed Royal Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1839, a post his father had held prior to his death. He was famous for his prolific and up-to-date mapmaking, so much so that the satirical newspaper Punch wrote in 1849 that Wyld ‘makes it his business to see further than anyone else’ and that if a new country were to be found in the centre of the earth, Wyld’s skills were such that he would in no time create a ‘Grand Map of that delightful spot, the Centre of the Earth, published for the use of Emigrants’, allowing travel from Sydney to London, not by land but through. This view was no doubt spurred by the construction of ‘Wyld’s Great Globe’, a spherical hall in the shape of a globe some 18 metres in diameter in which visitors could ‘see’ the world from the inside out. The attraction at London’s Leicester Square was second only to the Great Exhibition in visitor numbers. He ran the attraction while concurrently serving as a Whig Member of Parliament for the seat of Bodmin (1847-1852 and 1857-1868). He died in 1887 in Kensington after which his son James John Cooper Wyld, took over the business.
