• Title
  Copy of the 1697 Vlamingh plate , produced in 1950
• Call number
  R 175
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 22
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1950 (copy of 1697 plate)
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  889041
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 plaque - 37 x 36.5 cm - Circular with 11 holes
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The original plate was left in 1616 on Hartog Island by the Dutch navigator Dirck Hartog who was exploring the coast of West Australia from North-West Cape to Gautheaume Bay.
  
  In 1697 the Dutch skipper Willem de Vlamingh found the plate and made a copy adding an account of his own voyage and re-erected a new plate, taking Hartog's plate back to Holland.
  
  In 1801 the French explorer Captain Hemelin found the Vlamingh plate half buried and re-erected it.
  
  In 1818 the French navigator Freycinet found the plate and took it back to France.
  
  The plate was rediscovered in the national French museum in Paris and presented by the French Government to the Commonwealth Government of Australia in 1948.
  
  In 1950 the Commonwealth Government transferred the original Vlamingh plate to the Perth Art Gallery and presented this copy of the Vlamingh plate to the Mitchell Library.
  
  Reference:
  Ah 132
• Scope and Content
  Transcription of text on plate:
  
  1616 THE 25 OCTOBER IS HERE ARRIVED THE SHIP EENDRACHT OF AMSTERDAM, THE UPPERMERCHANT GIL-LIS MIEBAIS OF LIEGE SKIPPER DIRCK HATICHS OF AMSTERDAM. THE 27 DITTO (we) SET SAIL FOR BANTUM (Bantam), THE UNDERMERCHANT JAN STINS, THE FIRST MATE PIETER DOOKES VAN BIL. ANNO 1616.
  
  1697 THE 4 FEBRUARY IS HERE ARRIVED THE SHIP GEELVINCK OF AMSTERDAM, THE COMMANDER AND SKIPPER WILLEM DE VLAMINGH OF VLIELAND, ASSISTANT JOAN-
  
  NES BREMER OF COPENHAGEN; FIRST MATE MICHIL BLOEM OF BISHOPRIC BREMEN. THE HOOKER NYPTANGH SKIPPER GERRIT COLAART OF AMSTERDAM; ASSISTANT THEO-DORIS HEIRMANS OF DITTO (the same place), FIRST MATE GER-RIT GERITSEN OF BREMEN. THE GALIOT HET WESELTJE, MASTER CORNELIS DE VLAMINGH OF VLIELAND, MATE COERT GERRITSEN OF BREMEN AND FROM HERE (we) SAILED WITH OUR FLEET TO FURTHER EXPLORE THE SOUTHLAND AND (are) DESTINED FOR BATAVIA - #12 (on the twelfth) VOC
  
  Reference:
  Western Australian Museum
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Original held by
  The original Vlamingh plate is held by the Western Australian Museum
• General note
  
  Correspondence re presentation is at Ah 132
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1027013
• Name
  Hartog, Dirck.
  Vlamingh, Willem de, b. 1640
  
• Topic
  plates
  explorers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE152709

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