The art of science : Nicolas Baudin's voyagers 1800 - 1804 / edited by Jean Fornasiero, Lindl Lawton and John West-Sooby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fornasiero, F. J., editor.

Lawton, Lindl, editor.

West-Sooby, John, editor.

Muséum d'histoire naturelle du Havre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803--Travel--Australia.

Baudin, Nicolas.

Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803.

Scientific expeditions--Australia--Exhibitions.

Scientific expeditions.

Discoveries in geography.

Travel.

Australia--Discovery and exploration--French--Exhibitions.

Australia.

Discoveries in geography--French.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent Town, South Australia Wakefield Press, 2016.

Summary:

At the dawn of the 19th century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two lavishly equipped ships on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands'. Inspired by the Enlightenment's hunger for knowledge, Baudin's expedition collected well in excess of 100,000 specimens, produced more than 1500 drawings and published the first complete chart of Australia. Baudin's artists, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, painted a series of remarkable portraits of Aboriginal people and produced some of the earliest European views of Australian fauna. These exquisite artworks reveal the sense of wonder this strange new world inspired.

Contents:

Foreword / Ambassador of France to Australia

Foreword / Mayor of Le Havre

The Baudin Expedition Timeline

Word and image; reconstructing the Baudin expedition / Gabrielle Baglione and Cédric Crémiére

The Baudin expedition; glory, disgrace and redemption / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby

Napolean's France; Ambition, frontiers, claims / Michelle Hetherington

First encounters / Nicolas Bigourdan

Friend or foe? The French in Port Jackson / Nigel Erskine

Unlocking mysteries; Charting and naming the Australian coasts / Jean Fornasiero, Lindl Lauton and John West-Sooby

Tasmanian fauna; A zoological legacy / Kathryn Medlock, Simon Grove and Catherine Byrne

Reading the work of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit / Sasha Grishin

The art of cultural exchange; From Le Havre to Lutruwita / Zoe Rimmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (170-172) and index.

"This book has been published to coincide with the touring exhibition The Art of Science: Baudin's Voyagers 1800-1804, which showcases more than 350 works from the Lesueur Collection held by the Museum of Natural History in Le Havre, Normandy, France." --Back cover.

ISBN:

9781743054277

1743054270

OCLC:

950004477