C1866

Townsville, Cleveland Bay.

Mapmaker:

$A 750

Rare plan of Townsville harbour by Thomas Ham (1821-1870) printed in 1866, the same year Townsville was declared a municipality. In 1866, Robert Towns, entrepreneur and businessman agreed to provide financial assistance to the new settlement. Although he only visited … Read Full Description

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S/N: QLD-1866-TOWNSVILLE–445368

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Full Title:

Townsville, Cleveland Bay.

Date:

C1866

Mapmaker:

Thomas Ham (1821 - 1870)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured lithograph.

Image Size:

275mm

x 317mm

Paper Size:

310mm

x 343mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1866

Description:

Rare plan of Townsville harbour by Thomas Ham (1821-1870) printed in 1866, the same year Townsville was declared a municipality.

In 1866, Robert Towns, entrepreneur and businessman agreed to provide financial assistance to the new settlement. Although he only visited Townsville briefly, the settlement was named Townsville in his honour. Towns died in 1873. A memorial to him is located at the top of Castle Hill. Townsville was declared a municipality in February 1866, with John Melton Black elected first Mayor (his residence is marked) of the new municipality. It was also the year the first steamship arrived in the port.

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.

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