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Title: Art of Science, The: Nicholas Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804
Author: FORNASIERO JEAN/LAWTON LINDL/WEST-SOOBY JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: WAKEFIELD
Price: $39.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781743054277