First Fleet artwork collection

An eye-sketch of Port Jackson, with the settlement at Sydney Cove at upper left. The coast is outlined in black ink, with a band of blue wash indicating the water side. The harbour entrance, with the heads marked as "South Foreland" and "N. Foreland", is located at lower centre, with "North Harbour" and "Middle Harbour" at lower right, and the main channel bending to the left and extending to the top of the sheet. Places marked on the southern shore include "Rockey Point" and "Camp Cove" just inside the south head, and "Corn fields" drawn schematically in ink and pencil in the cove adjacent to "Sydney Cove", with "Garden Isld." and "Convicts Isld." in the channel nearby. The union jack of Queen Anne has been drawn on the eastern shore of Sydney Cove, with a dotted line indicating a track which passes a cluster of buildings (including one larger one which is presumably Government House, but is not labelled) and huts, crossing the Tank Stream (also not labelled) up to "Lieut. Govr. House", and on towards the "Hospital" on the western shore. The "Observation" is marked at the end of the western arm of the cove, and other huts and tents are indicated to the left of the hospital and on the western shore of the Tank stream. In the cove itself two ships have been drawn, one labelled "Golden Grove" (the name of one of the storeships of the First Fleet) and the other alongside "Reeds Rock". Two "Watering Pl." are indicated on the north shore opposite Sydney Cove. Other places labelled on the northern shores include "Bradley Point" further to the east, and "Middle Head" opposite the harbour entrance. The title and scale are at lower left, the orientation arrow in the centre indicates north to the right, and place names and soundings are marked in black ink.