First Fleet artwork collection

A chart of Norfolk Island, with Nepean and Phillip Islands to the south, inscribed with soundings, navigational hazards and place names. The title and scale, in brown ink, are contained within the shape of Norfolk Island. The orientation arrow, in black ink and wash, is positioned below the island towards the centre of the composition, indicating north as diagonally upwards and to the right and labelled in brown ink "magnetic meridian". The land masses are coloured with a yellow wash and outlined in brown ink, with cliffs indicated by a scalloped edge shaded in brown. They are surrounded by a narrow band of blue wash on the sea side. The relief of "Mount Pitt" on Norfolk Island is represented by rings of grey wash with pencil hatched lines, while "sugar loaf" on Phillip Island appears to be depicted in profile view with brown shading. The flagstaff on the shore of "Sydney Bay" to the south of Norfolk Island is indicated with a naturalistic representation of the Union Jack of Queen Anne. In the sea in front of it there is a small schematic ship labelled "Sirius", perhaps marking the spot where the flagship Sirius was wrecked in 1790 (see also Watling Drawing number 22 and Raper drawings numbers 22 and 23). Other names marked are, anti-clockwise from the western arm of Sydney Bay, "Pt. Ross", "Cresswell bay", "Bradleys Rocks", "Pt. Hunter", "Bluff Hd.", "Collins Head", "Balls Bay", "Pt. Blackburn", "NE Point", "Cascade Bay", "Little Cascade", "Landing rock", "Valley", "Great Cascade", "Duncombe Bay", "path", "Landing rocks", "Pt. Howe", "One tree Pt.", "Anson Bay" and "Rocky Point". Navigational hazards such as "sand & Mud", "Sand & Coral" etc. Phillip Island is labelled "The tide makes two hours sooner on the Norfolk Island shore / than in the stream - and by Phillip Island" at lower right. The drawing is framed by a triple-banded ink border, with the central band coloured with a pink wash.