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92 Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Map of Port Jackson (Sydney) Plan de Port-Jackson (Sydney) 1802–04 watercolour, pen and ink, pencil Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 16074.2 Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Platypus skeleton Squelette d’ornithorynque 1802–04 pencil Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 80269 © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.

Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR French 1778–1846 Platypus Ornithorynque 1802–04 watercolour, pencil Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 80033 The naturalist François Péron was the first Frenchman to study a platypus at first hand in Australia, during the Baudin expedition. Curiously, while he and artist Charles- Alexandre Lesueur were observing the platypus in the southern hemisphere, back in Paris in 1802 Napoleon is documented as discussing this newly discovered creature with the French scientist Georges Cuvier and other savants. It was another French scientist, Étienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, who in 1803 first grouped the platypus and the echidna together under the new classification of Monotremata. © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation. 93

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Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR<br />

French 1778–1846<br />

Map <strong>of</strong> Port Jackson (Sydney)<br />

Plan de Port-Jackson (Sydney)<br />

1802–04<br />

watercolour, pen and ink, pencil<br />

Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 16074.2<br />

Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR<br />

French 1778–1846<br />

Platypus skeleton<br />

Squelette d’ornithorynque<br />

1802–04<br />

pencil<br />

Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 80269<br />

© COPYRIGHT<br />

This document remains the property <strong>of</strong> the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.

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