• Title
  [Surveyor's compass from the family of Gregory Blaxland] / Joseph Smith, maker
• Creator
  Joseph II Smith, active 1811-1857
• Call number
  R 878
  Status: On display - Map Rooms
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1811-1826
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  152168
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  1 compass with brass case, folding brass slit and wire sights, in original wooden box - metal - 12 cm. diam. of compass; 17.6 x 14.5 x 2 cm. meas. of box
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Dated from Joseph Smith II's location at the Royal Exchange, London. (Ref. Directory of British scientific instrrument makers, 1550-1851 / Gloria Clifton, general editor, Gerard L'E Turner (1995). Location : NQ681.7502541/1 General Reference Library)
  Said by the donor's family to be the compass taken by Gregory Blaxland on his crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813. The compass was passed to Gregory's daughter Jane (married Christopher Hays), then to her son, Arthur, to his son Norman (d. 1974, obituary in 'The Land' 2 May 1974), thence to his niece, Kathleen Cooper, and was presented to the Mitchell Library by her granddaughter, Judith.
  
  Keyword:
  Circumferentor
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1027161
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Engraved signature on face 'J.Smith, Royal Exchange'
• Name
  Blaxland family
  
• Topic
  surveyors' compasses
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April-June 2009)
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November 2010 - March 2012)
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - May-August 2013; Feb.-May 2014
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1010844

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