Nlle. Hollande, Baie des Chiens-marins, nid gigantesque trouve sur l'ile Dirck-Hatichs. [New Holland, Bay of Sharks, huge nest found on Dirk Hartog Island.]

Title: bNlle. Hollande, Baie des Chiens-marins, nid gigantesque trouve sur l'ile Dirck-Hatichs. [New Holland, Bay of Sharks, huge nest found on Dirk Hartog Island.] | Date: 1825 | Technique: b'engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured at a later date'
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Title

Nlle. Hollande, Baie des Chiens-marins, nid gigantesque trouve sur l'ile Dirck-Hatichs. [New Holland, Bay of Sharks, huge nest found on Dirk Hartog Island.]

Source

Freycinet, Louis de. 'Voyage autour du monde... Atlas historique', Paris: Pillet Aîné, 1825

Page or Plate number

plate 13

Date made

1825

Place made

Europe, France, Ile-de-France, Paris View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured at a later date

Support

paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression with later hand-colouring

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Oceaniè-Australia'. Inscribed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil .'300-'.

IRN

204610

Accession number

2010.1043

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Marie Louise Wordsworth, Perth, October 2010.

Credit line

The Wordsworth Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010

Subject categories

Voyages of exploration and discovery 1600-1900: French | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013