Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR<br />
French 1778–1846<br />
François PÉRON<br />
1775–1810<br />
LAMBERT FRÈRES engravers<br />
France active 1807–30<br />
Title page in Voyage <strong>of</strong> discovery to the<br />
southern lands<br />
Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes<br />
2nd edition, by François Péron, published by<br />
Arthus Bertrand, Paris<br />
1824<br />
engraving and etching<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong>, Melbourne<br />
Joe White Bequest, 2010 2010.96.1<br />
In France at the dawn <strong>of</strong> the nineteenth<br />
century, the ‘newly discovered’ Australia was<br />
seemingly the last completely unknown frontier<br />
in an otherwise charted and documented<br />
world. It is no wonder that possession <strong>of</strong><br />
Australian plants and animals became a<br />
priority for Josephine. Lesueur’s illustration<br />
<strong>of</strong> the grounds <strong>of</strong> Malmaison – which served<br />
as the frontispiece to François Péron’s 1807<br />
account <strong>of</strong> the Baudin expedition – depicted<br />
three kangaroos, five black swans and two<br />
emus happily acclimatised amid Australian<br />
trees and shrubs doubtless also brought back<br />
on board Baudin’s ships.<br />
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