Creator Higinbotham & Robinson

Date 1890

An extraorinarily detailed map of Mosman and the North Shore, showing landholders and early residential subdivisions, public recreation and military reserves. These include the 100 feet wide foreshore reserves which are such a public asset today, including Cremorne Point and Balmoral Esplaande...This is also the landscape setting of the Sydney Artists camps, where young painters like Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton whiled away the 1890s depression in creative bliss at places like Balmoral and the Curlew Camp at little Sirius Cove, camped on bush blocks owned by absent landholders, enjoying one of the finest maritime landscape settings in the world - Sydney Harbour.

Source: National Library of Australia