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C1827
Interview with the Natives of St. Asaph’s Bay, Melville Island.
Rare engraving by Phillip Parker King of Melville Island. King’s important account of his coastal explorations and surveys, were undertaken 1818-1822 in the ships Mermaid and Bathurst. The British increasingly feared the motives of the ongoing French presence in the coastal waters of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Interview with the Natives of St. Asaph’s Bay, Melville Island.
Date:
C1827
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured aquatint
Image Size:
165mm
x 105mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1827
Description:
Rare engraving by Phillip Parker King of Melville Island.
King’s important account of his coastal explorations and surveys, were undertaken 1818-1822 in the ships Mermaid and Bathurst.
The British increasingly feared the motives of the ongoing French presence in the coastal waters of the “unclaimed” western half of the Australian continent, especially so after the Baudin expedition of 1800-1803. As a consequence King’s instructions were to complete the charting of the north-west which soon led to the British claiming Western Australia, on 2 May 1829.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 1084/1130.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 : pp. 161-163, 84b..
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972 : 573.
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 : 927.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 737186
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS 980.1/131C1 , 980.1/131B1
State Library Victoria: Record ID 993297803607636
State Library South Australia: 919.4042 K54
Australian National Maritime Museum: Object No: 00004331
Phillip Parker King (1791 - 1856)
Phillip Parker King (1791–1856) King was a naval officer, hydrographer and company manager, son of Philip Gidley King. Phillip sailed for England with his parents in October 1796 in the Britannia. When his father left England in November 1799 to become governor of New South Wales, his sister Maria was left in the care of Mrs Samuel Enderby, and Phillip was placed under the tuition of Rev. S. Burford in Essex. In 1802 he was nominated to the Portsmouth Naval Academy. In November 1807 he entered the navy in the Diana and became a midshipman serving for six years in the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, being promoted master's mate in 1810 and lieutenant in February 1814.
