Edwin and Karen Clark are the only people in Australia reproducing historical mapping from a medieval designed etching press.
Published on it's side in a volume by Dr John Hawkesworth in 1773, the original map offered some of the first detailed information on the East Coast of Australia that was commercially available. To bind such a large rectangular map into a book with North to the top would have guaranteed a very short life span due to tearing at the base, thus North is to the right. This edition of 250 individualised maps (of which over half have been sold) offers the collector a unique opportunity to own the ultimate facsimile of Cook's famous map. Intensive artwork has combined with a period of time (nine years) in which I learnt the medieval process of INTAGLIO printing enabling me to offer a very limited number of copies to interested collectors. Mass produced editions from machinery capable of producing half a million copies a day, photographs or inkjet renditions may satisfy many, but with this chart it is now possible for the collector to own a copy of a scarce traditionally printed chart who's only compatible editions come from the 18th century. The printing process of these maps can be authenticated by most art galleries.
Individualized numbering and hand colouring ensure no two maps are identical (as are modern printed editions) and the process combined with the high quality paper used ensures that the life span will be compatible with the early editions. (300-500 years. ) Each map is supplied with a photo sequence of me printing and a written description of the process. A short summary of it's historical significance and a signed certificate guaranteeing the production method is also included.
Characteristics of the map include the fact that Cook did not have a chronometer on his first journey when this map was charted and was consequently out in his calculations of longitude by about ten miles. This can be seen in the positioning of Cape Byron (our most eastern point of land ) west of Point Danger. Cook assumed that Stradbroke Island and Moreton Island were one and that Fraser Island was part of the mainland. Parts of the coast are missing (Princess Charlotte Bay and other sections ) due to the limited resources at his disposal. The map shows the track of the Endeavour and many depth soundings (in fathoms) as well as anchoring points.
Display Surface. 91 x 40 cm
Individualized numbering and hand colouring ensure no two maps are identical (as are modern printed editions) and the process combined with the high quality paper used ensures that the life span will be compatible with the early editions. (300-500 years. ) Each map is supplied with a photo sequence of me printing and a written description of the process. A short summary of it's historical significance and a signed certificate guaranteeing the production method is also included.
Characteristics of the map include the fact that Cook did not have a chronometer on his first journey when this map was charted and was consequently out in his calculations of longitude by about ten miles. This can be seen in the positioning of Cape Byron (our most eastern point of land ) west of Point Danger. Cook assumed that Stradbroke Island and Moreton Island were one and that Fraser Island was part of the mainland. Parts of the coast are missing (Princess Charlotte Bay and other sections ) due to the limited resources at his disposal. The map shows the track of the Endeavour and many depth soundings (in fathoms) as well as anchoring points.
Display Surface. 91 x 40 cm
A New Chart of New Holland ....
Compiled from James Cook’s 1770 journey up the east coast and varying degrees of information from the thirty one recorded landings before Cook, this map was first published from an engraved copper plate in 1789 and printed using the intaglio process. Information from Tobias Furneaux, captain of the Adventure , one of the vessels on Cook’s second voyage has been added. Earlier information would necessarily incorporate the voyages of the Duyfken c, 1605, Eendracht, 1616, Zeewolf, 1618, and the Leeuwin in 1622 . It pre-dates the discovery of Bass Strait by Bass and Flinders (1799) and excludes Spencers Gulf ,Port Phillip, Western Port and Princess Charlotte Bay , all of which at the time the map was first published, had yet to be discovered.
This later intaglio edition is is restricted to two hundred and fifty numbered maps on archival paper with a life span of 300 years and is only available from Edwin Clark and Assocs.The technique leaves a residue of clues. This capacity to be identified has combined with the limited numbers produced., enhancing the collectability of this map.
Display surface. 40 x 40 cm
Compiled from James Cook’s 1770 journey up the east coast and varying degrees of information from the thirty one recorded landings before Cook, this map was first published from an engraved copper plate in 1789 and printed using the intaglio process. Information from Tobias Furneaux, captain of the Adventure , one of the vessels on Cook’s second voyage has been added. Earlier information would necessarily incorporate the voyages of the Duyfken c, 1605, Eendracht, 1616, Zeewolf, 1618, and the Leeuwin in 1622 . It pre-dates the discovery of Bass Strait by Bass and Flinders (1799) and excludes Spencers Gulf ,Port Phillip, Western Port and Princess Charlotte Bay , all of which at the time the map was first published, had yet to be discovered.
This later intaglio edition is is restricted to two hundred and fifty numbered maps on archival paper with a life span of 300 years and is only available from Edwin Clark and Assocs.The technique leaves a residue of clues. This capacity to be identified has combined with the limited numbers produced., enhancing the collectability of this map.
Display surface. 40 x 40 cm
Carte reduite de l’Australasie pour servir a la lecture...........
Later intaglio edition of a map originally published by Robert de Vaugondy in Paris in 1756.Vaugondy ( 1688 - 1766 ) like his contempory Jacques Bellin published some of the last maps that were focused on Australia before James Cook placed the geography of the east coast of Australia into the mainstream of world awareness.This map shows Terre du St. Esprit (the Island of Espiritu Santo, part of Vanuatu ) first charted by de Quiros in 1606, as a possible part of Australia. De Quiros’ departure from this expedition under pressure from a mutinous crew left Luis Baez Torres on board the San Pedro in charge of the remaining vessels. He sailed around the island and proved it is not connected but this aspect was unknown outside the appropriate Spanish circles . It was not until 1762 when the British occupied Manila that this information became known and by then maps of this area by Bellin and Vaugondy were fast losing their significance.
Unlike Bellin, Vaugondy maintains as far as possible the original longitudinal estimation from the de Quiros expedition, but similar to Bellin, he assumes a direct land connection with the mainland of Australia. As with all of the maps mentioned in this section, the original maps were printed using the Intaglio process.
Display surface. 32 x 26 cm
Later intaglio edition of a map originally published by Robert de Vaugondy in Paris in 1756.Vaugondy ( 1688 - 1766 ) like his contempory Jacques Bellin published some of the last maps that were focused on Australia before James Cook placed the geography of the east coast of Australia into the mainstream of world awareness.This map shows Terre du St. Esprit (the Island of Espiritu Santo, part of Vanuatu ) first charted by de Quiros in 1606, as a possible part of Australia. De Quiros’ departure from this expedition under pressure from a mutinous crew left Luis Baez Torres on board the San Pedro in charge of the remaining vessels. He sailed around the island and proved it is not connected but this aspect was unknown outside the appropriate Spanish circles . It was not until 1762 when the British occupied Manila that this information became known and by then maps of this area by Bellin and Vaugondy were fast losing their significance.
Unlike Bellin, Vaugondy maintains as far as possible the original longitudinal estimation from the de Quiros expedition, but similar to Bellin, he assumes a direct land connection with the mainland of Australia. As with all of the maps mentioned in this section, the original maps were printed using the Intaglio process.
Display surface. 32 x 26 cm
Plan of the River Brisbane..
Shows the topography of the Brisbane River and it’s surrounds as found by the first Europeans to chart it. Oxley’s 1823 visit and his consequent glowing report was the single major factor in the decision to establish a penal colony in Moreton Bay. (This was done in 1824.) The original edition of this chart was published the following year showing depths in fathoms up to what is now the suburb of Bellbowrie. Islands near the Mouth which have since been built into the bank are clearly visible. The topography at the mouth of the River is separately detailed as is a general chart of the Bay. The river mouth which was covered with about twelve feet of water at an average low tide was dredged in 1902 to allow larger vessels to enter. The blending of Stradbroke Island with the other Islands of southern Moreton Bay shows the limit of his exploration.
This later edition of John Oxley’s map has been produced using 540 year old intaglio printing process.
Display Surface. 26 x 28 cm
Shows the topography of the Brisbane River and it’s surrounds as found by the first Europeans to chart it. Oxley’s 1823 visit and his consequent glowing report was the single major factor in the decision to establish a penal colony in Moreton Bay. (This was done in 1824.) The original edition of this chart was published the following year showing depths in fathoms up to what is now the suburb of Bellbowrie. Islands near the Mouth which have since been built into the bank are clearly visible. The topography at the mouth of the River is separately detailed as is a general chart of the Bay. The river mouth which was covered with about twelve feet of water at an average low tide was dredged in 1902 to allow larger vessels to enter. The blending of Stradbroke Island with the other Islands of southern Moreton Bay shows the limit of his exploration.
This later edition of John Oxley’s map has been produced using 540 year old intaglio printing process.
Display Surface. 26 x 28 cm
CHART of NEW ZEALAND.
Plate marked 1772, this map was originally engraved onto copper using information from Cook’s first journey (1769-71) and was published in Dr. John Hawkesworth’s official account in 1773.
This, the first circumnavigation of the islands took Cook and his men six months (6th Oct 1769 -1st April 1770) and resulted in many interactions both good and bad with the local inhabitants. As the expedition left with only 18 months of provisions, they were always seeking “refreshments”. Water, wood ,fish and “wild celery” were the main resources obtained by the visitors. Local names have been included in many instances, but Cook often felt that the territorial extent of these references were probably incorrect. He had on board a Tahitian (Tupia) who was able to converse with the New Zealanders. The services of Tupia contributed significantly to the detailed perceptions later published in Hawkesworth.It is worth noting that this survey pre-dates the use of the chronometer and Cook is inaccurate in many of his sightings from one to ten miles. Several inaccuracies also exist due to the weather and time limitations discouraging closer examination. The foremost of these are “Bank’s Island “ and “ Cape South”. Never the less Cook was perhaps the foremost navigator of his time.
It is the opinion of the writer that this is the first full sized edition to be taken from an etching press for over 200 years.
Display surface. 41 x 53 cm
Plate marked 1772, this map was originally engraved onto copper using information from Cook’s first journey (1769-71) and was published in Dr. John Hawkesworth’s official account in 1773.
This, the first circumnavigation of the islands took Cook and his men six months (6th Oct 1769 -1st April 1770) and resulted in many interactions both good and bad with the local inhabitants. As the expedition left with only 18 months of provisions, they were always seeking “refreshments”. Water, wood ,fish and “wild celery” were the main resources obtained by the visitors. Local names have been included in many instances, but Cook often felt that the territorial extent of these references were probably incorrect. He had on board a Tahitian (Tupia) who was able to converse with the New Zealanders. The services of Tupia contributed significantly to the detailed perceptions later published in Hawkesworth.It is worth noting that this survey pre-dates the use of the chronometer and Cook is inaccurate in many of his sightings from one to ten miles. Several inaccuracies also exist due to the weather and time limitations discouraging closer examination. The foremost of these are “Bank’s Island “ and “ Cape South”. Never the less Cook was perhaps the foremost navigator of his time.
It is the opinion of the writer that this is the first full sized edition to be taken from an etching press for over 200 years.
Display surface. 41 x 53 cm
NOVAE GUINEAE Forma & Situs
Considered by R.V Tooley to be the first printed map of Australia. (The Mapping of Australia, Tooley p. 195.) First released by Cornelius De Jode in Antwerp in the year 1593 using intaglio printing from a hand engraved copper plate.
While no accurate detail of the Australian coastline is depicted , De Jode’s map has the land mass located under New Guinea with the coastline slanting NW to SE and the prominent mountainous region parallel to the coast, all characteristics of the Queensland coast. Recorded European maritime activity in this region in the sixteenth century include Alvaro de Saavedra sent from Mexico by Fernand Cortez in 1527 who reputedly sailed 500 leagues down the coast of Papuas during one of his attempts to return to Mexico. Another vessel under the command of the Spaniard Grijalva spent considerable time exploring the region in 1536. Due to a munity very few members of this expedition survived to give an account of what they found. Portuguese exploration along the east coast of Australia in the 1520s as written about by Lawrence Fitzgerald in his book “Java La Grande” are symptomatic of other probable European maritime activity along this coast. These realities mixed with medieval creatures such as a gryphon, mermaids and other sea monsters indicate the antiquity from which this map was produced.
This later edition is restricted to seventy numbered maps using intaglio printing on archival paper. The technique leaves a residue of clues. This capacity to be identified has combined with the limited numbers produced, enhancing the collectability of this map .
Display surface.43 x 27 cm
Considered by R.V Tooley to be the first printed map of Australia. (The Mapping of Australia, Tooley p. 195.) First released by Cornelius De Jode in Antwerp in the year 1593 using intaglio printing from a hand engraved copper plate.
While no accurate detail of the Australian coastline is depicted , De Jode’s map has the land mass located under New Guinea with the coastline slanting NW to SE and the prominent mountainous region parallel to the coast, all characteristics of the Queensland coast. Recorded European maritime activity in this region in the sixteenth century include Alvaro de Saavedra sent from Mexico by Fernand Cortez in 1527 who reputedly sailed 500 leagues down the coast of Papuas during one of his attempts to return to Mexico. Another vessel under the command of the Spaniard Grijalva spent considerable time exploring the region in 1536. Due to a munity very few members of this expedition survived to give an account of what they found. Portuguese exploration along the east coast of Australia in the 1520s as written about by Lawrence Fitzgerald in his book “Java La Grande” are symptomatic of other probable European maritime activity along this coast. These realities mixed with medieval creatures such as a gryphon, mermaids and other sea monsters indicate the antiquity from which this map was produced.
This later edition is restricted to seventy numbered maps using intaglio printing on archival paper. The technique leaves a residue of clues. This capacity to be identified has combined with the limited numbers produced, enhancing the collectability of this map .
Display surface.43 x 27 cm
Maris Pacifici
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98 ) was an Antwerp cartographer and colourist who produced the world’s first uniform atlas of the World in 1570. He was a contemporary and rival of Gerard de Jode, who is considered by many to have published the first printed map of Australia. Maris Pacifici by Ortelius is the first printed map of the Pacific Ocean, and is based on the 1519-22 world circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan. The only vessel to complete the journey , the VICTORIA is depicted on the map. Only 18 of the original complement of 239 survived the experience. Spanish and Portuguese activity in the Pacific started with Vasco de Balboa who sighted the Pacific in 1513. In that same year Portugal was well placed to compete with the Spanish when Francisco Serrao established a base in Timor.Magellan’s circumnavigation was only one of many forays indulged in by people such as Ferdinand Cortez who sent ships west from Mexico in an attempt to restrict the Portuguese to their part of the Globe as specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Never the less Christovao de Mendonca (1521 ,Australian coast) and other Portuguese such as Francisco Zeimoto (1542 Japan) ensured intensive competition continued between the two European powers. Ortelius produced this map using the intaglio printing process, and then hand coloured it. This image portrayed on this website is from a photograph.
The Edition is limited to 450 maps.
Display surface. 54 x 38 cm
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98 ) was an Antwerp cartographer and colourist who produced the world’s first uniform atlas of the World in 1570. He was a contemporary and rival of Gerard de Jode, who is considered by many to have published the first printed map of Australia. Maris Pacifici by Ortelius is the first printed map of the Pacific Ocean, and is based on the 1519-22 world circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan. The only vessel to complete the journey , the VICTORIA is depicted on the map. Only 18 of the original complement of 239 survived the experience. Spanish and Portuguese activity in the Pacific started with Vasco de Balboa who sighted the Pacific in 1513. In that same year Portugal was well placed to compete with the Spanish when Francisco Serrao established a base in Timor.Magellan’s circumnavigation was only one of many forays indulged in by people such as Ferdinand Cortez who sent ships west from Mexico in an attempt to restrict the Portuguese to their part of the Globe as specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Never the less Christovao de Mendonca (1521 ,Australian coast) and other Portuguese such as Francisco Zeimoto (1542 Japan) ensured intensive competition continued between the two European powers. Ortelius produced this map using the intaglio printing process, and then hand coloured it. This image portrayed on this website is from a photograph.
The Edition is limited to 450 maps.
Display surface. 54 x 38 cm
A New Map of the World.
Published off copper using traditional intaglio processes around the year 1705, Herman Moll’s map offers a cartographic sample of mankind’s knowledge of our planet in that year. The map records Sir Frances Drake’s circumnavigation of 1577-80 as well as Schouten’s 1615-17 voyage. William Dampier’s visit to the west coast of Australia in Jan 1688 is also recorded. Dampier on board the Cygnet landed near the Lacepede Islands, the experience later encouraging the British Government to send him back in 1699 on board the Roebuck. This second journey is not recorded on the map. Pre-dating accurate longitude and the European discovery of large masses of land such as the North West coast of North America, the East Coast of Australia, the Kamchatka Peninsula (North of Japan) most of the New Zealand Islands, eastern New Guinea, Antarctica, the northern coast of Tasmania and many other smaller islands that had remained hidden from the Europeans for a hundred and thirty years. British and French exploration and the advent of the chronometer in the later part of the 18th century soon revealed and tidied most of the remaining gaps.
This later edition is limited to 500 hand printed maps.
The image of this map of the world portrayed on this website is from a photograph.
Display surface 58 x 37 cm
Published off copper using traditional intaglio processes around the year 1705, Herman Moll’s map offers a cartographic sample of mankind’s knowledge of our planet in that year. The map records Sir Frances Drake’s circumnavigation of 1577-80 as well as Schouten’s 1615-17 voyage. William Dampier’s visit to the west coast of Australia in Jan 1688 is also recorded. Dampier on board the Cygnet landed near the Lacepede Islands, the experience later encouraging the British Government to send him back in 1699 on board the Roebuck. This second journey is not recorded on the map. Pre-dating accurate longitude and the European discovery of large masses of land such as the North West coast of North America, the East Coast of Australia, the Kamchatka Peninsula (North of Japan) most of the New Zealand Islands, eastern New Guinea, Antarctica, the northern coast of Tasmania and many other smaller islands that had remained hidden from the Europeans for a hundred and thirty years. British and French exploration and the advent of the chronometer in the later part of the 18th century soon revealed and tidied most of the remaining gaps.
This later edition is limited to 500 hand printed maps.
The image of this map of the world portrayed on this website is from a photograph.
Display surface 58 x 37 cm
Anglo-Saxon Map of the World.
There are several dimensions to a map. They are a scientific report and an historical document and as such are a multi level research tool. They can also be a work of art. This Tenth Century map of the world drawn in England shows the scientific and historical limitations of it’s day.
The problem of displaying spatial relativity without an orienteering constant of worth may be seen in the map which predates the magnetic compass by 200 years. At that time mapping was often an interpretation of traveller’s itineraries and a journey amongst other things is an emotional experience. Distances calculated by the time spent crossing them can be affected by factors that have no geographical input such as stressful weather conditions. Maps produced like this would be prone to distortions. The collective error of these observations were symptomatic of the European “Dark Ages” when fiction and superstition challenged fact at every turn.
The original map would have been based on the widely dispersed concepts of the Roman general Agrippa. A quick look at Agrippa’s map would show that many medieval features both accurate and inaccurate have been added making it an excellent scientific and historical expression of it’s day.
North is at the left of the image.
This edition is based on an antique woodcut published in London early in the 19th Century and is printed using a 500 year old process onto antique parchment and as such each map will vary depending on the age and condition of the parchment. Further individuality is added by the hand coloring.
Parchment was made from the wet , limed and unhaired skins of mainly calf and goats.
It's use can be dated at least to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. ( 2000 BC.)
Display surface. c. 39 x 34 cm.
There are several dimensions to a map. They are a scientific report and an historical document and as such are a multi level research tool. They can also be a work of art. This Tenth Century map of the world drawn in England shows the scientific and historical limitations of it’s day.
The problem of displaying spatial relativity without an orienteering constant of worth may be seen in the map which predates the magnetic compass by 200 years. At that time mapping was often an interpretation of traveller’s itineraries and a journey amongst other things is an emotional experience. Distances calculated by the time spent crossing them can be affected by factors that have no geographical input such as stressful weather conditions. Maps produced like this would be prone to distortions. The collective error of these observations were symptomatic of the European “Dark Ages” when fiction and superstition challenged fact at every turn.
The original map would have been based on the widely dispersed concepts of the Roman general Agrippa. A quick look at Agrippa’s map would show that many medieval features both accurate and inaccurate have been added making it an excellent scientific and historical expression of it’s day.
North is at the left of the image.
This edition is based on an antique woodcut published in London early in the 19th Century and is printed using a 500 year old process onto antique parchment and as such each map will vary depending on the age and condition of the parchment. Further individuality is added by the hand coloring.
Parchment was made from the wet , limed and unhaired skins of mainly calf and goats.
It's use can be dated at least to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. ( 2000 BC.)
Display surface. c. 39 x 34 cm.
Kangooroo
This illustration of a kangaroo first appeared in John Stockdale’s publication of Governor Phillip’s voyage to Australia in 1789. While it was preceeded by Cornelis de Jode’s attempt in his book Speculom Orbis Terrae in 1593 , and more famously in the publication of Cook’s first journey in 1773 (drawn from a stuffed skin taken from an animal shot at the Endeavour River in 1770) the Kangooroo (sic) depicted displays proportional inaccuracies symptomatic of early perceptions. The engraving from which the illustration was produced does not credit any artist.
This aspect has often given rise to the speculation that the artist was in fact a convict.
Display surface. c. 33 x 23 cm
This edition is limited to 250 hand printed copies.
Great Brown Kings Fisher.
This illustration of a kookaburra first appeared in John Stockdale’s publication of Governor Phillip’s voyage to Australia in 1789. Like the Kangooroo,(sic) the engraving from which the illustration was produced does not credit any artist.
As mentioned, this aspect has often given rise to the speculatioin that the artist was in fact a convict. Pre-dating the use of the word kookaburra the original drawing would of been shipped back in the returning convict vessells to be published from engraved copper using the intaglio process for the eager market then existing in the British Isles. Stockdale’s account was published without Phillip’s collaboration despite his editor having access to the official dispatches from Port Jackson.
Display surface. c. 33 x 23 cm
This edition is limited to 250 hand printed copies.
Germania.
Published by Mela in 1576 at Basel in Switzerland this map was originally produced 120 years after the first printed images began to appear. Similar to maps of it’s day, it suffers from inadequate projection . It would be another 200 years before accurate calculation of longitude was available to map makers.
Display surface.23 x 21 cm
LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES.
Published by Mela in 1576 at Basel in Switzerland this map was originally produced 120 years after the first printed images began to appear. Similar to maps of it’s day, it suffers from inadequate projection . It would be another 200 years before accurate calculation of longitude was available to map makers.
Display surface.23 x 21 cm
LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES.