Archives Nationales (France) - Selection of items shown at the exhibition, 'Grands Voiliers Autour du Monde', 1962

M 434
Status: Unavailable

fonds

1801-1839, Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

432443

microfilm reel 35 mm. - 6 photographs

In March 1962, an exhibition entitled, 'Grand Voiliers Autour du Monde: Les Voyages Scientifiques, 1760-1850', was held in the Musee de la Marine, Paris. Items displayed included paintings, drawings, manuscripts, maps, ethnographical objects and natural history specimens.

1. 11pp. copy of a transcript, in French, of a report by a member of Nicolas Baudin's expedition in 1801, describing the west coast of Australia and containing an account of the discovery of the Vlamingh Plate on Dirk Hartog Island. The report covers the period, 26 July - 4 Aug. 1801.

2. 6 photographs:
a. Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Oil portrait. Collection Baronne de Vazehles
Photograph located at PXA 2100 / Box 04 `Louis Antoine de Bougainville, undated'
Colour transparency is at FM2 / 163

b. Tombeau du Pere Receveur a Botany Bay. Watercolour by Ferry. Collection Musee de la Marine
Photograph located at PXA 2113 / Box 42 `Receveur'
Colour transparency at FM2 / 164

c. Bathurst. Watercolour by Pellion. Collection Baron de Freycinet
Photograph located at PXA 2113 / Box 08 `Bathurst, N.S.W. – 1819'

d. Vue du Port Jackson prise de l'Observatoire. Watercolour. Collection Baron de Freycinet: SPF 'Sydney, 1819'

e. Voyage a Bathurst. Une vue de Prospect Hill. Maison de Campe de M. Lawson. Wash drawing. Collection Baron de Freycinet: SPF 'Prospect, 1819'

f. Establissement Penitentiaire du Port Arthur. Water colour by Edouard Paris. Collection Jobbe Duval: SPF 'Port Arthur, 1839'.

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm master.
Available for reference.
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 162, p.59.
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series: M 434.
Original report held in Archives Nationales, Ministere de la Marine, 60 rue des Francs-Bougeois, Paris 3e, France.
Currently only held by National Library of Australia. (Exhibition Catalogue).