• Title
  Anna Josepha King - miniature map 'A Plan of Port Famine 1827' drawn by Philip Gidley King (the younger) when nine years old, received from Phillip Parker King, 1829, together with explanatory note by Anna Josepha King.
• Creator
  Anna Josepha King, 1765-1844
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7787 (Safe 1/271)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1827-1829
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Manuscript Cartographic Materials
• Reference code
  457736
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder)
  1 map - manuscript - 4.8 x 4.4 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), pastoralist, was born at Parramatta, eldest son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriet King, and grandson of Governor Philip Gidley King (1758-1808) and Anna Josepha King. As a young boy, he sailed in the HMS Adventure under the command of his father on an expedition to survey the southern coast of South America in 1826-1830. The ship entered Port Famine in January 1827 and anchored there until May 1827 while surveys were made of the surrounding area.
  
  Further biographical information is available from the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition.
• Scope and Content
  Miniature pen and ink manuscript map 'A Plan of Port Famine 1827' in the hand of Philip Gidley King, neatly pasted onto paper bearing manuscript notes on both sides. On one side is written: 'A plan of Port Famine done by P.G. King only 9 years old received the 18th of Febry 1829'. On the other side in the same hand: 'Memo from his Father Capt P.P. King "The enclosed I found on Philips Desk it is exactly like the place of Port Famine and a much better plan than I have seen Done by older people"'. A different hand has added: 'written by Mrs Gov King'. The map is quite detailed with various landmarks such as the River Sedger clearly labelled in ink. It also indicates the position of the party's tent.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 4778, frames 1-10.
  
  Possibly Philip Gidley King's earliest map. Sent by his father, Phillip Parker King, to his grandmother, Anna Josepha King, while still on the surveying expedition. His father's comments as to the quality and standard of his young son's cartographic skills are noteworthy as Phillip Parker King is often described as the greatest of the early Australian marine surveyors.
  
  A description of the surveying voyage of HMS Adventure 1826-1830 is found in Volume 1 of 'Narrative of the surveying voyages of his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe' London: Henry Colburn, 1839 (located at 508.3/7A5 in the Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 896995
• Creator/Author/Artist
  King, Philip Gidley, 1817-1904
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  
• Name
  Adventure (ship: Captain = Phillip Parker King)
  
• Subject
  South America--Discovery and exploration--Maps.
  Surveyors, Marine.
  
• Place
  Hambre Harbor (Chile)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3251375

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