AFTER CHARLES ALEXANDRE LESUEUR

Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle Galleries du Sud. Vue de la partie mridionale de la ville de Sydney ... 1803 [and] Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang

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AFTER CHARLES ALEXANDRE LESUEUR
Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle Galleries du Sud. Vue de la partie mridionale de la ville de Sydney ... 1803 [and] Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang
by Pillement
etchings, printed by Langlois under the direction of J. Milbert, [Paris, 1811]. Fold-marks, very slight browning. Window-mounted.
each 14 x 21in. (36 x 54cm.)
Lesueur embarked as a canon-man on the ship La Gographe on a voyage of circumnavigation under Captain Baudin that lasted from 1800 to 1804. He proved himself such a talented draughtsman on the journey from Le Havre to the Ile de France that he was freed from his military duties and appointed draughtsman for zoology. He worked closely with Franois Pron, the naturalist on the voyage, whose published account of the expedition, Voyage de dcouvertes aux Terres Australes, appeared between 1807-16. The atlas volume, containing many illustrations after Lesueuer, was published in 1811 (see Hill p. 229). (2)

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