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Antique Map of Australia and New Zealand with Mount Alexander Inset, circa 1860
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- Sheet
- 60 cm × 49 cm (width × height)
- Framed as shown
- 85 cm × 74 cm
- Shown on
- Duck egg wall
- Size
- Large, over 80 cm (31 in) framed
- Date
- circa 1860
- Technique
- Engraving
- Color
- Hand colored
- Condition
- Good
- Stock no.
- BG-14396-3
This is an original antique engraved map, colored by hand, from Fullarton's Companion Atlas to the Gazetteer of the World. The title reads "AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND", with the line "According to Arrowsmith and Mitchell". The general map shows the whole continent with southern New Guinea, the Arafura Sea and the islands to the north, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides to the east, and New Zealand at the lower right. Across the interior are lettered "WESTERN AUSTRALIA", "NORTH AUSTRALIA", "SOUTH AUSTRALIA" and "NEW SOUTH WALES"; the coasts and boundaries are colored by hand.
Three insets fill the lower part and right side of the sheet. At the lower left is "VICTORIA and the ADJOINING REGIONS", lettered "Scale twice as large as that of General Map". An oval inset shows "the Goldfields of MOUNT ALEXANDER", with Castlemaine, Golden Point, Forest Creek and the diggings, together with a small "Route from Melbourne to Mt. Alexander". A large circular inset at the right center is titled "THE Principal Portions of NEW SOUTH WALES", with Sydney lettered "SIDNEY". On the general map the island is lettered "TASMANIA OR VAN DIEMENS LAND", with a list of its "Police Divisions", and New Zealand is divided into "NEW ULSTER", "NEW MUNSTER" and "NEW LEINSTER". Numbered lists name the counties of the colonies.
The cartouche reads "Drawn by AUGUSTUS PETERMANN F.R.G.S." and "ENGRAVED BY G.H. SWANSTON." The engraver's line below the lower right corner of the border reads "Engd. by G.H. Swanston Edinburgh", and the imprint centered below the border reads "A. FULLARTON & Co. EDINBURGH, LONDON & DUBLIN."
The sheet comes from The Companion Atlas to the Gazetteer of the World, published by A. Fullarton and Co. of London, Edinburgh and Dublin and issued to subscribers in parts. The printed wrapper of Part 7, which survives with these maps, bills the work as comprehending forty-three beautifully colored maps engraved by G. H. Swanston, and it is marked "Colored Copy". Van Diemen's Land was officially renamed Tasmania in 1856, and New Ulster and New Munster were provinces of the colony of New Zealand until 1853.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.