Terre Napoleon: Australia Through French Eyes, 1800-1804

AUSTRALIANA Maritime Exploration

Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what what remains of Napoleon’s ambition to establish a new scientific empire.
Catalogue of an exhibition in collaboration with the Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesuer of Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, from Ville du Havre, France, and held at the Museum of Sydney, 27 February-30 May 1999.
148 p., 47 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, col. ports. ; 30 cm. #200922
Bibliography: p. 146. First Edition.
Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846 — Exhibitions. | Petit, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804 — Exhibitions. | Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre — Exhibitions. | Drawing, French — 19th century — Australia — Exhibitions. | Painting, French — 19th century — Australia — Exhibitions. | Settlement and contacts – Explorers – European. | Race relations – Representation – Art. | Australia — Description and travel — To 1850. | Australia — Discovery and exploration — French.
Carter, Paul, 1951- | Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales | Museum of Sydney on the Site of First Government House