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Image Object Description/Inscriptions International loan objects and artworks being borrowed by Australian cultural institutions for the exhibition ‘The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804’ (September 2018 – December 2018) Object Dimensions Artist/Creator/ Image description/Inscriptions/ Object Number Lender Display Institution (width x height Provenance Related place Date created Materials in cm) Chronometer no. 31. MnM 13NA 3 D National Maritime South Australian Maritime Louis Berthoud Box open: Used by Nicolas Baudin to navigate to the unknown Baudin expedition Museum, Museum, About 1793 14 x 20 x diameter coast, but regarded as official naval property and from France to Paris, France Queen Victoria Museum and 18.5 returned to the French Navy at the end of the voyage Australia and return Art Gallery, Tasmanian Box closed: via Mauritius Museum and Art Gallery, 14 x 11 x diameter Australian National Maritime 14 Museum, National Museum of Australia, Western Australian Museum Dynamometer 2014.0.531.113F The Army Museum, South Australian Maritime Designed by Edme In box: Developed by Regnier at the request of Georges-Louis Unknown The dynamometer is a device France Museum, Regnier, fabricated 33.5 x 35 x Leclerc, count de Buffon. The dynamometer was in for measuring force and this Queen Victoria Museum and by two of his diameter 8.7 the collection of the Artillery Museum, the one was designed to Art Gallery, Tasmanian apprentices, predecessor of the Army Museum. Regnier was the measure human or animal Museum and Art Gallery, Arnheiter and Nicolas- Artillery Museum’s first curator, holding the position muscle strength. Australian National Maritime Martin Petit until 1816. French naturalist François Museum, National Museum This dynamometer did not travel with the Baudin Péron used a similar of Australia, Western expedition dynamometer to test the Australian Museum strength of people he encountered (including the French). He then proposed theories on their level of civilisation based on his strength experiments. Brass International loan objects and artworks being borrowed by Australian cultural institutions for the exhibition ‘The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804’ (September 2018 – December 2018) Copper printing plate of SHO 627 National Maritime South Australian Maritime Louis de Freycinet 106 x 74.5 This copper printing plate was used to produce what some Australia, France Carte de la Nouvelle- Museum, Paris, France Museum, 1811 historians believe to be the first printed map of Australia. Hollande. Queen Victoria Museum and The Carte de la Nouvelle-Hollande Art Gallery, Tasmanian was published in Louis de Freycinet’s Atlas historique du Museum and Art Gallery, Voyage aux Terres Australes – Deuxième Partie (Voyage of Australian National Maritime discovery to the southern lands Atlas – part two), Museum, National Museum published in 1811. of Australia, Western Publication of the volumes giving the official account of the Australian Museum expedition, Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, and the associated atlases, was authorised by Napoleon on 4 August 1806. François Péron, along with naturalist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, was given responsibility for the project, with Louis de Freycinet – who had already been working on the charts – to undertake the cartography. Voyage journals, charts and official coastal profiles were considered the property of the French Navy. At Mauritius during the return voyage, all officers had to surrender their journals, which were locked in a crate and delivered to the Ministry of the Navy. Other documents (made by the naturalists) went to the Museum of Natural History. Chart of coastal profile Terre MAR/5JJ/51/B15 no. National Archives, Western Australian Museum Nicolas-Martin Petit, 54 x 38 Considered the official property of the South West, de Leeuwin, Western 127 Paris, France mapped by Charles French Navy and delivered to the Western Australia Australia. Pierre Boulanger Ministry of the Navy; later deposited in Watercolour on paper According to the National Archives in Paris François Péron’s comments to the professors of the Museum of Natural History at Paris, Petit was the author of the coastal views, but Lesueur has signed a number of the related prints Chart of the Swan River, MAP/6JJ/4/Ap.51 National Archives, Western Australian Museum Nicolas-Martin Petit 67 x 51 Considered the official property of the French Navy Swan River, Perth, Western Australia. Paris, France 1800–1804 and delivered to the Ministry of the Navy; later Western Australia Watercolour on paper deposited in the National Archives in Paris International loan objects and artworks being borrowed by Australian cultural institutions for the exhibition ‘The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804’ (September 2018 – December 2018) General table of some of the 21003-1 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum François Peron 3.8 x 26.5 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Baudin expedition species observed in the Natural History, France Collection Lesueur)* from France to various classes of the animal Australia and return kingdom by Citizen Francois via Mauritius Peron, student zoologist in the french expedition of discovery led by Citizen Nicolas Baudin. Ink on paper New Holland: New South 16063-2 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Original drawing by 26 x 51,2 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Sydney, New South Wales - view of the southern Natural History, France Charles-Alexandre Collection Lesueur)* Wales part of Sydney, capital of the Lesueur, engraved by English colonies in Terres Jacques-Gerard Australes and the mouth of Milbert. Published in the Parramatta river. Voyage: Atlas Print in black ink on paper historique, 1807, plate XXXVIII Woman from Tenerife. 14005 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Unknown 24,5 x 17,2 This drawing was undoubtedly part of the drawings in Tenerife, Canary Watercolour, gouache and Natural History, France Nicolas Baudin's log book Islands pencil on paper Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Collection Lesueur)* "Reunion Island - Grande 15054 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Jacques-Gérard 27,5 x 35,4 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Mauritius Rivière and Montagne du Natural History, France Milbert Collection Lesueur)* Corps de Garde - J. Milbert 1800-1804 del. and sc. - Finished by Louvet " Jacques-Gérard Milbert. Print in black on paper Timor - view of the harbour 17034 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Charles-Alexandre 21,5 x 28,6 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Timor, Indonesia and the town of Kupang. Natural History, France Lesueur Collection Lesueur)* Black ink, wash and pencil on paper International loan objects and artworks being borrowed by Australian cultural institutions for the exhibition ‘The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804’ (September 2018 – December 2018) Official letterhead for the 13039-1 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Unknown 12,8 x 20,1 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Baudin expedition expedition. The words Natural History, France Collection Lesueur)* The preparations for the from France to "Liberty" and "Equality" Baudin expedition were detailed and extensive. Both Australia and return surround the central banner ships carried writing paper with specially printed via Mauritius which has the inscription letterheads "Bonaparte First Consul". The Géographe and Naturaliste are represented at sea, above the inscription "Voyage of Discovery". In the foreground are navigation and drawing instruments used during the voyage. Print in black on paper Timor - Aïberta Léba, King of 17005-1 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Nicolas-Martin Petit 32,5 x 25,7 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Timor Solor. Natural History, France Collection Lesueur)* Watercolour, gouache, pen, black ink and pencil on paper Young Malay girl, named 17002-4 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Nicolas-Martin Petit 28,2 x 22,9 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Timor Canda. This portrait is Natural History, France Collection Lesueur)* published in the Relation of the Voyage of1807, plate XXVI, with the caption "Timor - Canda young Malay girl". Gouache and pencil on paper Van Diemen's Land - 18008-2 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Charles-Alexandre 25,2 x 36 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Schouten Island, Navigation - View of the east Natural History, France Lesueur Collection Lesueur)* Tasmania coast of Schouten Island. Engraving published in la Relation de Voyage de 1807, plate XIV Jellyfish Rhizostoma cuvieri 70056 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Charles-Alexandre 42,7 x 26,9 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Atlantic Ocean Watercolour on vellum Natural History, France Lesueur Collection Lesueur)* 1800–1804 International loan objects and artworks being borrowed by Australian cultural institutions for the exhibition ‘The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804’ (September 2018 – December 2018) Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 70068 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Charles-Alexandre 46,8 x 29,8 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Atlantic, Indian and 1758). Natural History, France Lesueur Collection Lesueur)* Pacific Oceans Watercolour and pencil on 1800–1804 paper Gastropod Melo miltonis 72054 Le Havre Museum of Western Australian Museum Charles-Alexandre 24,3 x 17,2 Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (also called Western
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