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C1851
Map Shewing the Proposed Improvements in the Communication Between Hobsons Bay & Melbourne by James Blackburn, City Surveyor, 1st. Decr. 1851.
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Very rare early map of Melbourne by the ex-convict architect, civil engineer and Melbourne’s city surveyor, James Blackburn (1803-1854) and lithographed by Thomas Ham (1821-1870). Blackburn was a civil engineer, surveyor and architect and is considered one of the greatest … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Map Shewing the Proposed Improvements in the Communication Between Hobsons Bay & Melbourne by James Blackburn, City Surveyor, 1st. Decr. 1851.
Date:
C1851
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Minor browning along top fold, small spot at lower left, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
321mm
x 398mm
Paper Size:
337mm
x 430mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1851
Description:
Very rare early map of Melbourne by the ex-convict architect, civil engineer and Melbourne’s city surveyor, James Blackburn (1803-1854) and lithographed by Thomas Ham (1821-1870). Blackburn was a civil engineer, surveyor and architect and is considered one of the greatest colonial engineers of the 1840-50’s in Australia. On the 24th October, 1849 he was appointed Melbourne’s city surveyor.
Collections:
We have been unable to locate an example of this map in any Australian Institutional collection. The National Library holds a larger but later map of Melbourne dated 1852 by Thomas Ham. (Bib ID 3914660)
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Thomas Ham (1821 - 1870)
Thomas Ham (1821-1870) Important colonial engraver and lithographer of prints and maps. Thomas had trained as an engraver and in 1843 was commissioned to engrave the corporation seal for the Town of Melbourne. With his business in Collins Street, East Melbourne, he was sole contractor for engravings and lithography for the government and designed and engraved currency notes for various banks. He also took up land with another brother, Jabez, on the River Plenty in 1845 and in 1846-47 at Lalbert in the Wimmera district. In 1847 he published a map showing the squatting districts of ‘Australia Felix’; it ran to six editions in 1851-61.
