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Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800
Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800
Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800
François Bonneville after Joseph Jauffret

Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800, 1800

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe), c. 1800

Portrait, colour printed stipple engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800

Nicholas Baudin

Biography

Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803), cartographic surveyor and naturalist, was sent by the French government to survey the coast of Australia in 1800.

1 portrait in the collection

Nourou-gal-derri
Nourou-gal-derri
Nourou-gal-derri
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Nourou-gal-derri, 1807-1817

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased 2009

Cour-rou-bari-gal
Cour-rou-bari-gal
Cour-rou-bari-gal
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Cour-rou-bari-gal, published 1807

Portrait, engraving, hand coloured on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Oui-re-kine
Oui-re-kine
Oui-re-kine
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Oui-re-kine, 1807-1817

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased 2009

Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes folio atlas (second edition)
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes folio atlas (second edition)
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes folio atlas (second edition)
Francois Peron, Louis de Freycinet, Nicolas-Martin Petit

Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes folio atlas (second edition), 1824

Portrait, leather bound volume containing a double-page map of Australia, seven full-page charts, two double-page views, 27 hand-coloured engraving plates and 31 uncoloured engraving plates

Purchased 2017

Parabéri
Parabéri
Parabéri
Nicolas-Martin Petit

Parabéri, c. 1807

Portrait, engraving, hand coloured on paper

Purchased 2011

Y-erran-gou-la-ga
Y-erran-gou-la-ga
Y-erran-gou-la-ga
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Y-erran-gou-la-ga, published 1807

Portrait, engraving, hand coloured on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Jacques Arago
Jacques Arago
Jacques Arago
Nicolas Maurin, Alexandre Sixdeniers

Jacques Arago, c. 1830s

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal, 1807-1817

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased 2009

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Nicolas-Martin Petit

Biography

Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David.

9 portraits in the collection

Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins)
Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins)
Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins)
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins), 1807-1817

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased 2009

François Péron
François Péron
François Péron
Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless

François Péron, c. 1805

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

François Péron

Francois Peron

Biography

François Péron (1775-1810), naturalist and explorer, served as a soldier from 1792 to 1794, in which period he was imprisoned and lost the sight of one eye.

6 portraits in the collection

Portrait of Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet

Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet

Biography

Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.

1 portrait in the collection

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