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Poisson plat énorme vu en mer le 23 février 1819 près de l'île de Amirauté : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 near Admiralty Island] / by Rose de Freycinet
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Poisson plat énorme vu en mer le 23 février 1819 près de l'île de Amirauté : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 near Admiralty Island] / by Rose de Freycinet
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Poisson plat énorme vu en mer le 23 février 1819 près de l'île de Amirauté : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 near Admiralty Island] / by Rose de Freycinet
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Author / Creator
Date
23 February 1819
Call Numbers
SSV/145
Record Identifier
Language
French
— Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 21.9 x 14.8 cm - pencil, ink
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
1 ink sketch of a flat fish, surrounded by pencil and pen notes describing the fish and recording the time of sighting. Notes are recorded in French.
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Poisson plat énorme vu en mer le 23 février 1819 près de l'île de Amirauté : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 near Admiralty Island] / by Rose de Freycinet
Variant title
Translated title : Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 near Admirality Island
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
Signature / Inscriptions
Notes within the outline and underneath the sketch state ‘at least 8 feet in length’ and ‘the fish had a fin on its back’. This is likely to be in Rose’s hand.
Another note in a different hand (possibly that of Louis) describes the creature as an ‘enormous flat fish’, dates the sketch 23 February 1819, and gives the location as near the Admi...
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Hordern House, February 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
Rose de Freycinet (1794-1832) was born in Saint-Julien-du-Sault, outside Paris, to a cultured bourgeois family. She was well-educated and at 19 married the aristocratic naval officer Louis de Freycinet, a veteran of the Baudin expedition which surveyed large parts of the Australian coastline between 1801 and 1803.
In 1817 Louis de Freycinet...
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— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SSV/145
Record Identifier
1xqGwpEY
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— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
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1006343
