Kangaroo Island emu |
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| Title : | Kangaroo Island emu |
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| Creator : | Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846 | ||
| Source : | Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes, ... en 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; ... Atlas, pl., 36 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Paris | ||
| Publisher : | De L'Imprimerie Imperiale | ||
| Date of creation : | 1802 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Peron, Francois, 1775-1810 | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
The dwarf emu of Kangaroo Island was recorded by the artist Charles-Alexandre LeSueur of the Baudin expedition in 1802. The expedition had been sent out by the French government to explore the unknown section of the southern Australian coast in 1800. The expedition took several live specimens of the bird, as well as other animals, back to France with them, where they lived in the grounds of the palace of Malmaison. The birds can also be seen in the title page vignette of the expedition account Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes... and on the map of Terre Napoleon. The bird was extinct by the time of official white settlement in 1836. Like the English expedition under the command of Matthew Flinders, the 1800 French expedition under Post-Captain Nicolas Baudin was commissioned to explore and chart the coastline of the 'unknown southern land', determine whether New Holland was one landmass, and make scientific observations. They were also looking for new land and trade opportunities.Nicolas-Martin Petit and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur signed on as crew members of the Le Geographe, keen to travel to the undiscovered lands of New Holland. Without these two talented young men the French expedition's value would have been greatly lessened, as all three of the official artists resigned from the expedition before it reached the southern continent. Charles-Alexander Lesueur became the natural history artist for the expedition. He worked closely with his friend zoologist Francoise Peron, acquiring many scientific skills including taxidermy, and became particularly adept at drawing fauna. |
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| Related names : | Peron, Francois, 1775-1810 Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803 Petit, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804 Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846 |
| Coverage year : | 1802 |
| Period : | Pre-1836 |
| Place : | South Australia |
| Region : | Kangaroo Island |
| Further reading : | Baudin in Australian waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800-1804 / edited by Jacqueline Bonnemains, Elliott Forsyth and Bernard Smith. Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988 The Encounter 1802: art of the Flinders and Baudin voyages / [compiled by] Sarah Thomas Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002 Lesueur, Charles Alexandre. Les velins de Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre): exposition du 4 mai au 2 juin 1996, Le Havre, France: The Museum, 1996 Petit, Nicolas-Martin. Oeuvres de Nicolas-Martin Petit, artiste du voyage aux Terres Australes (1800-1804): exposition du 1er juin au 31 d ©cembre 1997, Le Havre: Mus ©um d'histoire naturelle de Havre, Collection Lesueur, 1997 |
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| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing. Taking it to the edge August 2004- |
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