[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
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[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
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SAFE/P2/579
Record identifier
1l42wRz1
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[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
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[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1802]
Call Numbers
SAFE/P2/579
Record Identifier
— Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 19 x 18 cm - pencil and charcoal on paper
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
A mid-length portrait in profile of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin dressed in naval uniform, seated at a table before a chart with compass in hand.
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Drawing is on laid paper watermarked 'J WICKWAR / 98'
Includes folder marked in red: ‘N Petit’ and stamped: 'Portraiture, Jack Cato, FRPS, 52 Elizabeth St, Melbourne'.
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed lower right 'N Petit'
Date note
No date. Dated from copy sketch 'Commodore Baudin 1802' watermarked 'Whatman 1810' in Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902 (Mitchell Library call no. PXC 767/no. 12)
Description source
Untitled. Title devised by cataloguer.
Published information
Drawing published in Plomley, N.J.B. 1983. The Baudin expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1802. Blubber Head Press. Hobart.
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Julien Renard, June 2019
Administrative / Biographical history
The portrait was drawn by Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777-1804), assistant gunner and draughtsman appointed by Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754-1803), Captain of the Géographe and Naturaliste and Commander-in-Chief on the Voyage de Decouvertes Aux Terres Australes 1800-1804. Petit was entrusted with the illustration of Baudin's log book from the earliest pe...
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/P2/579
Record Identifier
1l42wRz1
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42wRz1
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
9640858
