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Colonial
lithographers as mapmakers
Edited
By
Brian
Hooker
NB.
The sub-headings provide the
name of the engraver, surveyor or compiler, the year the
map was prepared, the area, and the year of publication.
A note about illustrations of
maps: The illustrations
are provided as a guide only - magnification is not
always practicable with early maps that are often faded
or smudgy. Some of the images have been copied from
small photographs of large maps. However, in some
examples enlargement in sections has been possible and a
note in the caption indicates this.
(Continued from Chapter 12
lithographic printing
commenced in Australia about 1821, and in New Zealand,
the first lithographic press was operated by Thomas
Bluett who arrived in Wellington on board the
Olympus,
in early 1843. Some of the early printing craftsmen are
known to have been skilled copper plate engravers but no
early examples of maps printed from copper plates in New
Zealand or Australia, have been found.
Wellington, T. Bluett (after F. Mathew), Auckland,
c. 1841
Map
Blu 1
“Plan
of The Town Of Auckland New Ulster The Capital Of the
Colony Of New Zealand ...” (lith. 410 x
515 mm.)
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Auckland by
Thomas Bluett who arrived in
Wellington on board the Olympus,
in
early 1843.
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Wellington, T.
Bluett (after E.M. Chaffers, and James Wyld), Port
Nicholson, 1839
Map
Blu 2
“Chart Of Port Nicholson Surveyed By E. M. Chaffers R.N.
1839. ...” / T. Bluett Printer /
.......,...Jones del (lith. 340 x 258 mm.)
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Wellington, T. Bluett (after E.M. Chaffers,
and James Wyld), Port Nicholson, 1839
Map Blu 2.
“Chart Of Port Nicholson Surveyed By E. M.
Chaffers R.N. 1839. ...” /
T.
Bluett Printer / .......,...Jones del.
Thomas Bluett arrived in Wellington on board
the Olympus, in early 1843.
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Wellington, T. Bluett, Wellington,
c. 1839
Map
Blu 3
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"
Plan of the city of Wellington, Port
Nicholson, New Zealand, 1841"
Jones, del. Publisher: Wellington : Jones
and Bluett, litho., 1841.
Description: 1 map : photocopy ; 22 x 39 cm.
Scale [ca. 1:16,000].
Alexander Turnbull Library copy is same
size photocopy of lithograph map
issued as p. 4 of the Victoria times, no.
1, Wellington, 15 Sept., 1841.
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[No examples have
been found to date but almost certainly Bluett published
a map of Wellington.]
Irish-born William
Keller Baker, arrived at Sydney in early 1835. He set up
a printing establishment known as the “Hibernian Press,”
at 101 King Street, Sydney, NSW.
Sydney, W.K. Baker, New Zealand,
c. 1840
Map
Bak 1
“A Map of New Zealand From Original Surveys By H.M.S.
Pelorus ...”
(lith. 430 x 320 mm.)
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Map Bak 1.
“A Map of New Zealand
From Original Surveys By H.M.S.
Pelorus
..."
Remarks:
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Sydney, W.K. Baker (after F. Mathew), Auckland,
c. 1847
Map
Bak 2
“Plan of the Town of Auckland.” (lith. 450 x 580 mm.)
Hobart, Courier Office (after O. Stanley) Waitemata
Harbour, 1840
Map
Cou 1
“Plan Of The
Harbour Of Waitemata New Zealand North Isle By
Owen Stanley and J. S. Hill H.M.S. Britomart October
1840,” [with an inset view:] “Sketch of the
Entrance of Waitemata from the Northward.” (lith. 300 x
507 mm.)
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Courtesy Auckland
Museum Library.
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Map Cou 1.
“Plan Of The Harbour Of
Waitemata New Zealand North Isle
By
Owen Stanley and J. S. Hill H.M.S. Britomart
October 1840,” [with
an
inset view:] “Sketch of the Entrance
of Waitemata from the Northward.”
Hobart,
Courier Office . Remarks: The border
has been added by the editor.
Little is known about the “Courier Office,”
Hobart; however, the map bears a legend
indicating that it was printed by
lithography at the “Courier Office,
Hobart Town, VDL” [Tasmania].
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Raphael Clint
(1797-1849), established a printing and engraving
business in Sydney in 1835. Clint modeled his New
Zealand maps on published works but he failed to
acknowledge his sources. Clumsily drawn, Clint’s maps
contain useful information. Nine of Clint’s maps have
been traced and there is every possibility that other
prints will come to light in time.
Sydney, R. Clint, New Zealand,
c. 1839
Map
Cli 1**
“A Chart of The Islands Of New Zealand. Compiled
from the latest Authorities and from Original Surveys by
R. Clint Lithographer Sydney,
1839.” (lith. 460 x 350 mm.)
Sydney, R. Clint, North Island,
c. 1839
Map
Cli 2
“A
Chart of the North Island of New Zealand. Carefully
Collated and Arranged From the latest Authorities by R.
Clint Lithographer, Sydney.” (lith. 520 x 360 mm.)
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Map Cli 2
“A Chart of the
North Island of New Zealand. Carefully
Collated and Arranged From the latest
Authorities by
R.
Clint Lithographer, Sydney.” Remarks:
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Sydney, R. Clint,
northern part of the North Island, 1839
Map
Cli 3**
“A Chart of the Northern end of the North Island, New
Zealand. From the latest Surveys. R. Clint Lithographer
Sydney 1839.” (lith. 362 x 252 mm.)
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Map Cli 3.
“A Chart of the
Northern end of
the
North Island, New
Zealand. From the latest Surveys."
R. Clint Lithographer
Sydney 1839.”
Remarks: Clint’s chart is
one of the earliest to portray the west
coast
harbours in
the correct sequence: Wangapae, Hokianga,
Kaipara, Manukau, Waikato River,
Waingaroa Harbour
(Raglan), Aotea,and Kawhia.
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Sydney, R. Clint (after Kent, and Norie), part of the
Waitemata Harbour, 1839
Map
Cli 4**
“Part
of the SW side of the Frith of the Thames In New
Zealand. R. Clint
Lithographer, Sydney, 1839.” (lith. 380 x 600 mm.)
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Map Cli 4.
R. Clint (after Kent, and Norie), part of
the
Waitemata Harbour, 1839 “Part of the
SW side of the Frith of
the Thames In New Zealand". R. Clint
Lithographer, Sydney, 1839.”
Remarks:
Note the Scottish term for Firth.
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Courtesy Auckland City
Libraries.
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Sydney, R. Clint
(after E.M. Chaffers), Port Nicholson, c. 1840
Map
Cli 5
“Chart Of Port Nicholson New Zealand Surveyed by E.M.
Chaffers. R. Clint Lithographer Sydney.”
This chart is
mentioned in New Zealand Gazette & Brittania
Spectator 12 September 1840, but a copy has not been
located.
Sydney, R. Clint, Wellington, 1841
Map
Cli 6
“Plan of the City of Wellington Port Nicholson: New
Zealand: 1841. R. Clint Lith George St.
Sydney.”
An original print
has not been found but a reproduction is included in,
L.E. Ward (Comp.) Early Wellington
(Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1927). The plan is
modelled to a large degree on W. M. Smith’s plan of 1840
(see the entry, Map Smi 9, in Chapter
11).
Sydney, R. Clint, entrance to the Hokianga River
Map
Cli 7
“The Entrance To Hokianga River R. Clint Sydney 1839.”
(lith. 260 x 220 mm.)
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Map Cli 7
“The Entrance To Hokianga River R. Clint,
Sydney 1839.”
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Sydney, R. Clint (after the BA chart of the same area),
Hauraki
Gulf,
c. 1838
Map
Cli 8
“Plan of Shouraka Gulf and the mouth of the River
Thames F. Mudie, Clint’s Establishment, Sydney.” (lith.
450 x 350 mm.)
Sydney, R. Clint, Bay of Islands, 1839
Map
Cli 9**
“A Sketch Of The Bay Of Islands In New Zealand R. Clint
Sydney 1839.”
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Map Cli 9
Sydney, R. Clint,
"A Sketch Of The Bay Of Islands In New
Zealand" R. Clint Sydney 1839.”
Remarks:
The title does not mean that Clint
carried out any
surveys.
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Sydney, R. Clint,
Kaipara harbour, c. 1840
Map
Cli 10
[Almost certainly Clint published a chart of Kaipara
Harbour but a copy has not been found.]
Robert Park
(18123-70), arrived in Wellington, in April 1840,
and took employment under William Mein Smith as an
assistant surveyor for the New Zealand Company. In 1842,
Park produced several lithographs on his own account,
including two different plans each with the same
title as given in the following entries. The only
examples known are preserved in the Hocken Library,
University of Otago, Dunedin.
Wellington, R.
Park, Nelson, 1842
Map
Pak 1
“Plan of the Town of Nelson New Zealand 1842 R.
Park Litho. Welln.”
(lith. 580 x 665 mm.)
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Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena,
University of Otago
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Map Pak 1.
“Plan
of / the Town of Nelson / New
Zealand
/ 1842
R. Park
Litho. Welln."
Remarks: Park’s note lower
right is
handwritten.
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Wellington, R.
Park, Nelson, 1842
Map
Pak 2
“Plan of
/ the Town of Nelson / New Zealand
/ 1842 / R. Park Litho. Welln."
(lith. 580 x 665 mm.)
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Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena,
University of Otago
Map Pak 2.
“Plan
of the Town of Nelson New
Zealand
1842
R. Park
Litho. Wellington.
Remarks: Park’s note mentioned
in
the previous entry is a printed legend in
this plan.
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Bibliography -
Chapter 13
Hargreaves, R.P.
1965 Chaffers’ chart of Port Nicholson.
New
Zealand
Geographer
21: 170-73.
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1982 The first New Zealand lithographs Art New
Zealand 24:
50-51.
Hooker, Brian
1997
Raphael Clint's map of Auckland, 1839
Auckland-Waikato Historical Journal
69:37-39.
Mackaness, G.
1952 Printing in Australasia
RAHS
Journal
36:
121-25.
New
Zealand Gazette & Britannia Spectator
Wellington:
Whitcombe & Tombs
Ward,
L.E.
(Comp.) 1927 Early
Wellington,
Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs.
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