Poisson plat enorme vu en mer le 23 Fevrier 1819 apres de l' ile de Armiraute : [Huge flat fish seen...
Poisson plat enorme vu en mer le 23 Fevrier 1819 apres de l' ile de Armiraute : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 after the island of Admirality] / by Rose de Freycinet
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Date
February 1819
Call Numbers
SSV/145
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Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 21.9 x 14.8 cm - pencil, ink
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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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 enorme vu en mer le 23 Fevrier 1819 apres de l' ile de Armiraute : [Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 after the island of Admirality] / by Rose de Freycinet
Variant title
Translated title : Huge flat fish seen at sea on the 23rd of February 1819 after the island of Admirality
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 Horden 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 circumnavigated Australia between 1801 and 1803.
In 1817 Louis de Freycinet was given command of a...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SSV/145
Record Identifier
1xqGwpEY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1xqGwpEY
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Reference code
1006343
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