Tallis' Map of Victoria
SKU: 9911
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Tallis' Map of Victoria
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Victoria or Port Phillip
Engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas, this map includes vignettes of Melbourne, the River Glenelg, a kangaroo and Aboriginal Australians engraved by John Rogers after H Warren. Read more
The map was engraved in 1851, the year in which the Port Philip District was separated from New South Wales to become Victoria. A variant state of the map captions the vignette of Melbourne as Port Phillip, but this may have been a simple confusion between the name of the bay and of the the city.
John Tallis the younger (1817-76) is best remembered for his hugely popular Illustrated Atlas published serially from the mid 1840s onwards and in its complete form in 1851. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840s. Seemingly a victim of unscrupulous business partners, he died in penury and is buried in an unmarked grave.
Condition & Materials
Steel engraving, printed area measurement 26 x 34 cm. Original hand colour in outline, blank verso.
References
Tooley, Mapping of Australia 1234
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