Tallis' Map of Victoria Printed Area Measurement_25 x 35 cm 25 x 33 cm

25 x 33 cm

1727 and the Harvard copy has been attributed to John Bowles

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Admired and encouraged by David Hume and Horace Walpole

we learn that horse-racing is a ‘cruel diversion’

Tallis' Map of Victoria Printed Area Measurement_25 x 35 cm 25 x 33 cmVictoria 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. 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