The art of science Nicolas Baudin's voyagers 1800 - 1804
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, pro...
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Kent Town, South Australia
Wakefield Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | "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 Includes bibliographical references (170-172) and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | 175 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781743054277 978-1-74305-427-7 |