Melbourne bird's-eye view Size:23 x 40 cm (A3) with rowing boats pulled up

with rowing boats pulled up to the bank

showing settlement around Hobart

and opened the following year in 1855

dictating the pattern of settlement to the present day

guarded by soldiers and and half-starved dogs

Melbourne bird's-eye view Size:23 x 40 cm (A3) with rowing boats pulled upCreator De Gruchy & Leigh lithographers Date 1871 Looking over the Yarra at Southbank northward, Elizabeth St and Flinders Street Station centre. This spectacular lithograph became the basis for De Gruchy & Leigh's birdseye a decade later 'Melbourne 1880', prepared for the International Exhibition. Comparing the views, it is fascinating to see the changes in the rapidly developing city. Source: State Library of Victoria