[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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    [Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]

    Call numbers

    SAFE/P2/579

    Record identifier

    1l42wRz1

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42wRz1

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    [Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]

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    Full title

    [Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]

    Author / Creator

    Petit, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804

    Date

    [ca. 1802]

    Call Numbers

    SAFE/P2/579

    Record Identifier

    1l42wRz1

    Formats

    Pictures and Drawings

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 drawing - 19 x 18 cm - pencil and charcoal on paper

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Publication information

    Published information

    Drawing published in Plomley, N.J.B. 1983. The Baudin expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1802. Blubber Head Press. Hobart.

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Physical Access Conditions

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    Issue Copy

    Digitised

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803--Portraits. Explorers--France--Portraits. France. Marine—Officers—Portraits.

    More information

    — 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.

    — 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

    Permalink

    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42wRz1

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    9640858

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