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Creator: Fowkes, Francis.
Title: Sketch & description of the settlement at Sydney Cove Port Jackson in the County of Cumberland taken by a transported convict on the 16th of April, 1788, which was not quite 3 months after Commodore Phillips's landing there [cartographic material] / F. F. delineavit.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:55 000]
Publisher: [London] : Published ... by R. Cribb, No. 288 High Holborn 1789 July 24.
Date: 1789
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 19.0 x 31.1 cm.
Notes: Attributed to Francis Fowkes, a former navy midshipman transported for seven years for theft.

First published map of Port Jackson showing the eleven ships of the First Fleet and the buildings, tents, sawpits, workshops, storehouses and gardens of the First Settlement.

In lower right margin: Neele sculpt Strand.
Subjects: First Fleet, 1787-1788 -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Port Jackson (N.S.W.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Port Jackson (N.S.W.) -- 1788.
Call Number: MAP NK 276
Amicus Number: 22931241
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk276