Rex Nan Kivell collection of maps
- Bib ID:
- 8414323
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Nan Kivell, Rex, 1898-1977
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MAP Nan Kivell Collection copy
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Description:
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- 1493-2003
- 661 maps : some colour.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell collection of maps.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection.
- Biography/History:
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Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell (1898-1977) was born at Christchurch, New Zealand, and educated at New Brighton Public School and Christchurch Technical College. He worked as a bookbinder before enlisting in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1916. He was discharged in England in 1919, never having seen action, and was employed as a judge’s marshal for some years. He became interested in archaeology and took part in the La Tène excavations in Wiltshire. Nan Kivell became a connoisseur of modern European art. In 1925 he joined the staff of the Redfern Gallery in London, which specialised in modern art. In 1931 he became managing director and he remained a director until his death. The Gallery prospered and Nan Kivell became an extremely wealthy man. Nan Kivell became particularly interested in European voyages to the Pacific. In London in the 1920s he began to collect books, manuscripts, maps, paintings, prints and other items relating to the exploration of the Pacific and the early British settlement of Australia and New Zealand. A major part of his collection was placed in the Library in 1949-52. His extraordinary achievements as a collector were recognised when he was knighted in 1976.
- Notes:
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- The Rex Nan Kivell collection of maps contains 861 maps and charts ranging from world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to coastal charts, cadastral maps, city plans, building plans, railway maps, electoral maps and celestial maps published in Australia and elsewhere in the nineteenth century.
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- The oldest map in the collection is a version of the famous world map of Ptolemy taken from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). There are 60 maps published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mostly comprising world maps or maps of Asia. There is a strong representation of works of Dutch and Flemish cartographers, such as Willem Blaeu, Justus Danckerts, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, Hendrik Hondius, Gerhard Mercator and Abraham Ortelius. There are also maps of Vincenzo Coronelli and John Speed and a copy of Melchisedech Thevenot’sHollandia Nova detecta (1663), which depicted the Australian continent as it was to be known for the next century. Of the 250 eighteenth-century maps, the majority are based on the explorations of William Dampier, George Anson, James Cook and Louis de Bougainville and the later Australian surveys of John Hunter and William Dawes. There are also world maps and maps of the East Indies and other regions by English, French and Dutch mapmakers such as Jacques Bellin, Johannes van Keulen, Thomas Kitchin and Herman Moll.
- Australian maps make up the bulk of the nineteenth-century maps, although there are a number of maps of New Zealand, South East Asia, and North and South America. They includes plates from the journals of explorers such as Matthew Flinders, John Oxley and Thomas Mitchell, maps produced by English cartographers such as Aaron and John Arrowsmith, John Bartholomew and James Wyld, charts issued by the Hydrographic Office in Britain and the Depôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine in France, and maps published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. There is also a long series of maps issued by the Victorian Surveyor-General’s Department in the 1850s.
- Collection published in various places by various publishers.
- MAP Nan Kivell Collection copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2789529969
- Related Material:
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- Related material: Papers of Rex Nan Kivell, 1938-1977; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection, MS 4000.
- Related material: Miscellaneous French material 1792-1840; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection, MS 4222.
- Related material: Rex Nan Kivell's photograph albums; Located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection, PIC Album 621-624 #PIC/8193/1-387 NK.
- Related material: Rex Nan Kivell collection of negatives, ca. 1917-1919; Located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection, PIC Nitrate store Box 49 #PIC/8561/1-5/1-630.
- Related material: Nan Kivell Collection [catalogue]; Located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection, PIC Volume 620 #NK11008/1-5.
- Related material: Portraits of the famous and infamous : Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, 1492-1970; Located at; National Library of Australia, Nef 704.9420994 N182, SRef 54, PIC Volume 618 #PIC/17034.
- Subject:
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- Nan Kivell, Rex, 1898-1977 -- Map collections
- World maps -- Early works to 1800
- World maps
- Real property -- Australia -- Maps
- Real property -- Victoria -- Maps
- Real property -- Queensland -- maps
- Railroads -- Australia -- Maps
- Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Maps
- Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- Maps
- Nautical charts
- Election districts -- Victoria -- Maps
- Missions -- Australia -- Maps
- Astronomy -- Charts, diagrams, etc. -- Early works to 1800
- Australia -- Maps
- Victoria -- Maps
- New South Wales -- maps
- South Australia -- Maps
- Western Australia -- Maps
- Tasmania -- Maps
- New Zealand -- Maps
- Southeast Asia -- Maps
- North America -- Maps
- South America -- Maps
- East Indies -- Maps
- Oceania -- Maps
- Australasia -- Maps
- Indonesia -- Maps
- Pacific Ocean -- Maps
- East Indies -- Early works to 1800
- Asia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Australia -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps
- Europe -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- South Asia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Southeast Asia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
- Australian
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- Time Coverage:
- 1493-2003
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2047 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1977
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2003
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