This
large beautifully hand coloured original & scarce
antique
map of New Holland
also named Ulimaroa, New Zealand and the South
Pacific by Franz Swoboda and Martin Hartl was published
in Vienna in 1815 - dated.
This map is typical of the affect of Cooks discoveries
on European cartography. Australia regularly became a
focus on regional maps. The name "Ulimaroa" was often
used, mainly by German & Austrian cartographers, at this
time. It was term Cook learned from the New Zealand
Maoris before discovering the east coast of Australia
during his first voyage of discovery.
When
this map was printed there was a strong belief that the
Australian continent was possibly
divided by an internal sea
strait, separating the east from the west coasts.
It was explorers such as Flinders and Baudin who set out
to find this elusive passage and if
so the possible point at which
a ship could enter.
Only a few years before in 1798 Flinders and Bass
had proved that there was a strait dividing Van Diemen’s
Land (Tasmania) from the rest of the continent so now
the race was on to find the other passage. On Swoboda’s
map a line has been drawn from the bottom of Carpentaria
to the eastern part of present day Victoria. This line
represented two things, the potential shape of the
eastern landmass split by the sea and the extent to
English territory in the newly settled colonies, only 17
years old.
The Southern Coastline is not shown as even
though Flinders had by 1803 mapped the entire region he
was in 1805 still under house arrest on the islands of
Mauritius by the French, he would not publish his
discoveries until 1814. Therefore this map shows
Australia at a pivotal point in its history when most of
the continent was still open for settlement by other
nations and the coastlines and mysteries were still to
be confirmed.
(Ref:
Clancy; M&B; Tooley)
General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy & stable
Paper color: - White
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Red, yellow
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 27 1/4in x
22in (695mm x
560mm)
Paper size: - 27in x
20 3/4in (685mm x
525mm)
Margins: - Min 1/4in (7mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - Vertical crease right
image
Verso: -
None
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