C1839

Dasyures devrant un Phoque.

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$A 125

Famous c.19th image of Spotted-tailed Quolls eating from a seal carcass, based on Charles Lessueur’s engraving from the official accounts of the voyage of exploration and scientific research under the command of Nicholas Baudin, in the ships the Geographe and Naturalist. The … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Dasyures devrant un Phoque.

Date:

C1839

Artist:

Charles Alexander Lesueur (1778 - 1846)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size:

114mm

x 90mm

Paper Size:

165mm

x 125mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1839

Description:

The naturalists from the expedition had camped for several days at Sea Elephant Bay on King Island in Bass Strait where they collected specimens of two native cats. The first sighting of quolls were made by Joseph Banks on 1 May 1770 at Botany Bay. ‘Named the ‘je-Quoll’ by the natives’, August 1770 Joseph Banks. Julian Crozet, observed March 1772, ‘Our hunters met a tiger cat and found several holes like those in a warren’, Blackman’s Bay, Tasmania.

Common names: Spotted-tailed Quoll, Tiger Cat, Tiger Quoll, Spotted-tailed Native Cat.
Binomial name: Dasyurus maculatus
First described: Kerr, 1792
Distribution: SA, VIC, TAS, NSW, QLD

Charles Alexander Lesueur (1778 - 1846)

French natural history and topographical artist on board the lavishly equipped scientific expedition prepared by the Institut de France with the ambitions to explore the southern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, in two corvettes, Geographe and the Naturaliste. Lesueur was taken on not as an artist or scientist but as an assistant gunner. Nichloas Baudin the commander of the expedition soon discovered Lesueur's talents and employed him as an illustrator for his private journal. His prolific output and the quality of his drawings during this important voyage is a testament to his artistic talents.

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