C1841

Sketch Shewing the relative Positions of the Lands under Survey to the Northward of Port Macquarie.

Rare map showing the extent of exploration north of Port Macquarie to 1841, including the recently discovered Clarence River and Moreton Bay which had been opened up to free settlers in 1838. In his report, Governor Gipps lamented the difficulties … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Sketch Shewing the relative Positions of the Lands under Survey to the Northward of Port Macquarie.

Date:

C1841

Condition:

In good condition, with folds as issued, laid onto archival linen.

Technique:

Lithograph with original hand colouring.

Image Size: 

315mm 
x 455mm
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Sketch Shewing the relative Positions of the Lands under Survey to the Northward of Port Macquarie. - Antique Map from 1841

Genuine antique
dated:

1841

Description:

Rare map showing the extent of exploration north of Port Macquarie to 1841, including the recently discovered Clarence River and Moreton Bay which had been opened up to free settlers in 1838. In his report, Governor Gipps lamented the difficulties settlers were having in transporting supplies and produce, especially wool, to market. He advised that he had employed a surveyor at Moreton Bay since 1 July 1839 and that a large quantity of land had been surveyed and was ready to be sold. He also proposed that a town or settlement be established on the Clarence River which had only been discovered two years earlier by cedar cutters.

From Copy of a Dispatch from Sir. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales to the Secretary of the State for the Colonies. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 9 March 1841.

John Arrowsmith (1790 - 1873)

Arrowsmith was an important English cartographer who flourished at a time of rapid British colonial expansion. Arrowsmith was born at Winston, County Durham. In 1810 he moved to London and worked his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith in his mapmaking business in London. After his uncle died in 1823 he set up on his own account. A founding member of the Royal Geographical Society 4th August 1830 and became unofficial cartographer for the society for forty three years. He took over the old Arrowsmith premises at 10 Soho Square after the death of his cousin Samuel Arrowsmith in 1839, buying the old Arrowsmith plates, manuscripts and copyrights at auction.

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