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C1856
The Colony of Western Australia: from surveys of John Septimus Roe Esq. Surveyor Gen’ and from other Official Documents in the Colonial Office and Admiralty.
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This issue of The Colony of Western Australia, 1856/1 (no date) . Note as Prescott states this issue was printed without the date, it shows ‘Pubd. Jany 2nd ..’ but not the year. Tooley 130 p.19 See Prescott Arrowsmith’s Australian … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Colony of Western Australia: from surveys of John Septimus Roe Esq. Surveyor Gen’ and from other Official Documents in the Colonial Office and Admiralty.
Date:
C1856
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving hand coloured
Image Size:
635mm
x 530mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1856
Description:
This issue of The Colony of Western Australia, 1856/1 (no date) . Note as Prescott states this issue was printed without the date, it shows ‘Pubd. Jany 2nd ..’ but not the year. Tooley 130 p.19
See Prescott Arrowsmith’s Australian Map
This first issue of The Colony of Western Australia is a remodelled Discoveries map, which was the earlier state of the map. It has been extensively revised and includes many new place names including places such as Rockingham, Pinjarra, Picton, Bunbury and Busselton on the west coast. On the south coast Normalup, Rame Hd., Irwin Inlet, Dillon Bay, Bremer Bay and Pt. Hood among others. New rivers flowing to the sea are the Lennox, Vasse and Capel into Geographe Bay and the estuary of an un-named river east of Pt. Knob. Rugged ranges north of Abany are now named the Stirling Ranges.
The coast line has been greatly altered and many new features are named.
Land allotments appear in the Swan, Avon and Toodyoy valleys, near Pinjarra and the Murray River, on the west coast at Busselton and near Picton, Waterloo and Williamsburg. Other blocks are shown near Albany and Wyndham and in the Vale of Kalgan.
New discoveries include the tracks of A. Collie in 1832 up a tributary of the Swan River and back via the Swan, this possibly being an examination of the 1500 acres granted to him.
G. F. Moore’s May 1836 explorations are shown north from Guildford to the Moore R. then south-west following the river and thence south-east back to Guildford. A second exploration is shown north-east of Guildford to Northam and beyond with Brown [Peter Broun] in 1836.
J. S. Roe’s journey is shown from Albany west and then north-east before turning north-west in Nov and Dec.1835. Pushing inland J. S. Roe’s track appears Oct/Nov 1836 east of Perth from York to the Glenelg Hills thence north to latitude 31°45’S and from thence westward to the Moore R and thence southward to Guildford.
Tracks of Lt. Bunbury in Oct 1836 between Beverley and Williamsburg are shown.
A. Hillman’s tracks from Pinjarra on the west coast eastward to Williamsburg in January 1835 appear, and his route west of Albany towards Pt Nuyts in July 1833.
Lt. W. Preston’s track is shown from Augusta to the north in vicinity of Vasse Inlet in 1831.
The supposed track of convicts overland from Albany to Geographe Bay has been removed.
John Arrowsmith (1790 - 1873)
English mapmaker, the last of a family of map makers that produced maps during the period 1790 to 1870. His uncle Aaron (1750 - 1823) left the north of England and went to work in London as a land surveyor where he surveyed the Great Post Roads between London and Falmouth which was engraved and published by John Cary an engraver in 1782 (Verner, 1971, p.1). In the 1790s he decided to establish his own map making business. He published about 200 maps and achieved great eminence being appointed Hydrographer to the King in 1820. John Arrowsmith, Aaron's nephew, who was born in Winston, county Durham, England (1790 - 1873) came to work for him in 1810. During the next thirteen years he learned from his uncle the art of map making, including engraving and printing. His two cousins, Aaron junior (1802-54) and Samuel (1805-39) (Verner, 1971, p.2) both worked in the business and inherited jointly the house, business, copper plates, presses etc. as stated in their father's will. By the time of his uncle's death John had established his own business which operated out of 33 East Street, Red Lion Square, although he still worked with his two cousins Aaron and Samuel. All three produced individual works, although Samuel was in charge of the business at 10 Soho Square. Aaron the younger, lost interest in map making and ceased producing maps in 1832 (Verner, 1971, p.2). In 1839 Samuel died and John bought the business including plates, MSS and copyrights at auction of December 1839 (Herbert, 1983) and continued operating from 10 Soho Square. In 1834 he produced his magnum opus, The London Atlas of Universal Geography, which he continued to revise and reissue until the last 1858 edition. However his atlas contains maps of later dates into the 60s (Herbert, 1989). He became a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society in London (1830) and a member of its council. He remained an active member for over forty years during which time he met many explorers and persons of influence who were instrumental in supplying him with information for his maps. In 1831 the society's Journal was established and Arrowsmith began producing maps for it from 1832 until 1870. He received the Gold medal of the Society in 1863 (Tooley, 1999). After his death his plates were bought by Edward Stanford of London who continued to issue the atlas with the name of Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography. This atlas continued into the 1920s. (Dorothy Prescott, 2010-2015)
