Visual histories John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-1830

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 144-161

  Driver, Felix ^a   Martins, Luciana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78751697308     PISSN: 13633554     EISSN: 14774569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.144     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. On the significance of Rio as a British naval station during the early nineteenth century, see Barry Gough, 'Sea Power and South America: the 'Brazils' or South American Station of the Royal Navy, 1808-1837', American Neptune 50, 1990, pp. 26-34. On Rio as a global city at the time of the translocation of the Portuguese court
2. see Luciana Martins and Mauricio Abreu, 'Paradoxes of Modernity: Imperial Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821', Geoforum 32, 2001, pp. 533-50.
3. Brian Vale, 'Appointment, Promotion and "Interest" in the British South American Squadron, 1821-3', Mariner's Mirror 88:1, 2002, p. 61.
4. J. J. Burton Jackson, Not An Idle Man: A Biography of John Septimus Roe, 1797-1878, Fremantle, 1982, pp. 3-5.
5. Roe first attended Christ's Hospital in 1807, entering the Mathematical School in September 1809.
6. John Septimus Roe to Rev. James Roe, 15 Sept. 1809
7. State Library of Western Australia, J. S. Battye Library, Perth.
8. Alexander Cozens' teaching at Christ's Hospital is discussed by Kimberly Sloan in Alexander and John Robert Cozens: the Poetry of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1986, chap. 3.
9. In a later (incomplete) study entitled The Various Species of Landscape in Nature, Cozens attempted to develop a method of rendering the character of a landscape based on his treatment of the human face in The Principles of Beauty (1778), through the combination of various 'objects' (rocks, woods, water, buildings) and 'circumstances' (the times of the day, the seasons, the weather conditions).
10. Alexander Dalrymple, Essay on Nautical Surveying, London, 1806, p. 4.
11. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 8 May 1811, 25 March 1813, Battye Library.
12. John S. Roe to J. Roe., 15 July 1813, 14 August 1817, 29 January 1821, Battye Library.
13. According to Basil Hall (writing originally in the 1830s), 'Three copies [of the Ship's Log-Book] are afterwards made; one of which is sent to the Admiralty, another to the Navy Board, and the third to the Admiral of the station. The original log-book is eventually deposited at the Admiralty, for the purpose of future reference': Basil Hall, The Log-Book of a Midshipman, London, 1894, p. 177.
14. Andrew Hassam, Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Diaries by Nineteenth-Century British Emigrants, Melbourne, 1995;
15. Valerie Helson, 'Shipboard journals in the manuscript collection', typescript, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1997.
16. Notable examples of contemporary manuscript ship-board diaries and notebooks containing accounts or images of Rio and Bahia include Thomas Melvill, 'Whaling Voyages Round the World, 1791-6'
17. Mitchell Library, Sydney; Ellis Bent, 'Journal of a Voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope', 1809
18. National Library of Australia, Canberra; Alexander Huey, 'Journal on H. M. Store Ship Dromedary, 1809-1810'
19. Mitchell Library, Sydney; Thomas Sloman, 'Diary of a Voyage to Sydney, 1833', Mitchell Library, Sydney;
20. Susan Meade, 'Journal of a Voyage to Australia, 1842', National Library of Australia, Canberra;
21. Alexander Weynton, 'Journals, 1841-60', National Library of Australia, Canberra;
22. Harry Woolley, 'Journal of a Voyage from London to Sydney on the Roman Emperor, 1850-1', National Library of Australia, Canberra.
23. Luciana Martins, O Rio de Janeiro dos viajantes: O olhar britânico, 1800-1850, Rio de Janeiro, 2001, pp. 133-61.
24. Marsden Hordern, King of the Australian Coast: the Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817-1822, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 24, 26.
25. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 21 April 1817, Battye Library.
26. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 15 May 1813, 18 August 1814, 21 February 1817, Battye Library.
27. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 14 August 1817, Battye Library.
28. Hordern, King of the Australian Coast, p. 179.
29. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 21 January 1820, Battye Library.
30. As recorded in Roe's correspondence, and in Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822, 2 vols, London, 1826.
31. King, Narrative of a Survey, vol. ii, p. 68.
32. Charlotte Klonk, Science and the Perception of Nature, New Haven and London, 1996, p. 151.
33. J. Robertson, The Elements of Navigation, 1796, p. 75.
34. For an account of Browne's works, see Luciana Martins, 'Navigating in Tropical Waters: British Maritime Views of Rio de Janeiro', Imago Mundi 50, 1998, pp. 141-55.
35. Martins, O Rio de Janeiro dos viajantes.
36. Greg Dening, Readings/Writings, Melbourne, 1998, p. 8.
37. Felix Driver, 'Hints to Travellers: Observation in the Field', in Driver, Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire, Oxford, 2001, pp. 49-67.
38. Leonard Bell, 'To See or Not to See: Conflicting Eyes in the Travel Art of Augustus Earle', in Orientalism Transposed: the Impact of the Colonies on British Culture, ed. Julie Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod, Aldershot, 1998, pp. 117-39;
39. Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche (eds), Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific, Cambridge, 1999.
40. See especially Dorinda Outram, 'On being Perseus: New Knowledge, Dislocation and Enlightenment Exploration', in Geography and Enlightenment, ed. David Livingstone and Charles Withers, Chicago, 1999, pp. 281-94;
41. Gillian Beer, 'Four Bodies on the Beagle: Touch, Sight and Writing in a Darwin Letter', in Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Oxford, 1996, pp. 13-30;
42. and more generally, Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge, Cambridge, 1998.
43. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 7 December 1816, Battye Library.
44. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 21 April 1817 [note added 26 May], 5 June 1817, Battye Library.
45. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 7 December 1818, Battye Library.
46. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 21 January 1820, Battye Library.
47. Paul Carter, 'Dark with Excess of Bright: Mapping the Coastlines of Knowledge', in Mappings, ed. Denis Cosgrove, London, 1999, p. 130. Carter's title is taken from Phillip Parker King's Narrative.
48. Hordern, King of the Australian Coast, p. 290;
49. King, Narrative of a Survey, vol. ii, pp. 29-31.
50. John S. Roe to J. Roe, 28 September 1821, Battye Library.
51. Burton Jackson, Not An Idle Man, p. 166.
52. Outram, 'On being Perseus', p. 290.
53. Simon Ryan, The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia, Cambridge, 1996.