COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814
Author:
Westall, William, 1781-1850
Date:
1814
Short Title:
View in Sir Edward Pellew's Group; - Gulph of Carpentaria.
Publisher:
G. & W. Nicol
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
View
Obj Height cm:
30
Obj Width cm:
24
Note:
William Westall was a Royal Academy artist appointed to Matthew Flinders voyage at 19 years of age. His method of drawing topographical views was to rule up his drawing sheets in a grid pattern to obtain an accurate perspective.
Country:
Australia
Region:
Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia)
Full Title:
View in Sir Edward Pellew's Group; - Gulph of Carpentaria.
List No:
10745.015
Series No:
15
Publication Author:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814
Pub Date:
1814
Pub Title:
A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the ... Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander ... in that island. 2 vol. With an Atlas [in folio.].
Pub Reference:
Hill, 614; Tooley, pp. 77-9; Wantrup, 67a. For the full text of Volume I and II see https://archive.org… and https://archive.org…
Pub Note:
"One of the greatest of all classics of Australian exploration and discovery... Flinders' classic account of his voyage on board the Investigator records the full-scale expedition to discover and explore the entire coastline of Australia (which was the name that Flinders himself preferred and championed). The three volumes form a complete narrative of the expedition, including an authoritative introductory history of maritime exploration in Australian waters from the earliest times. The text contains a day-by-day account of the Investigator voyage and Flinders's later voyages on the Porpoise and the Cumberland. Robert Brown's "General Remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis", which is illustrated by Ferdinand Bauer's botanical plates in the atlas, is printed as an appendix in the second volume. The text is illustrated by nine engraved plates and two double-page plates of coastal views in the atlas by the landscape painter William Westall, who travelled as official artist on the voyage. These are in many cases the very earliest views of the places visited and discovered on the voyage. Flinders' charts in the atlas were of such accuracy that they continued to be issued by the Admiralty for decades and form the basis of all modern charts of Australia. All the charts in the atlas here bear the imprint "W. & G. Nicol Pall Mall… 1814", an important point that identifies them all as being in the correct first issue form." (Hordern House, A unique assemblage of natural history, Item 11, 2019)
Pub List No:
10745.000
Pub Type:
Exploration Book
Pub Height cm:
30
Pub Width cm:
24
Image No:
10745015.jp2
Authors:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814; Westall, William, 1781-1850
Link To Source
View in Sir Edward Pellew's Group; - Gulph of Carpentaria.
