[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
[Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin, ca. 1802] / N. Petit [Nicolas-Martin Petit]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1802]
Call Numbers
SAFE/P2/579
Record Identifier
Reference Code
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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Digitised
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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.
Object History
Purchased by Gaston Renard, the vendor's father, in the 1960s.
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://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l42wRz1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9640858
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