• Title
  [Engraved portrait of Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, ca 1804-1810] / Sebastian Leroy
• Creator
  Sebastien Leroy, -1832
• Call number
  P2/577
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca 1804-1810]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  9616372
• Physical Description
  1 print - engraving - 10.1 x 7.9 cm (plate mark); 16.9 x 12.7 cm (sheet)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  French naval officer and cartographer, Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842) first visited Australia on the 1800-1804 Baudin voyage of exploration to chart the coast of the Australian mainland and Tasmania. During this voyage, the crew, including de Freycinet, stayed in Sydney for five months in 1802, from June to November. After his return to Paris, de Freycinet published an account of the expedition, 'Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes' ('Voyage of Discovery to Southern Lands', 1807), for which he also produced maps. In 1812, he published the atlas from the voyage, designating the whole coast west of Wilson's Promontory as 'Terre Napoleon', assigning French names to its principle features.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Comprises one circular profile portrait of Louis de Freycinet within a rectangular engraving on trimmed laid paper, signed in the plate 'Roy del. & sculp.' It is engraved by Sebastien Leroy and contains a Latin inscription below the portrait by Freycinet's friend and fellow navigator, Francois Peron. It is the only published portrait of the explorer.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Below the portrait is an inscription in Latin: 'Ultima perscrutans ignota que littora mundi, quam cernis placidam faciem, Dux, gessit eamdem. F. Peron amicus et co-navigator' ['The Commander whose calm features you behold, investigated the world's most distant, unknown coasts. F. Peron, friend and fellow navigator']
• Date note
  
  Date range based on de Freycinet being depicted as a young man, he turned 30 in 1809 and the portrait may possibly have been made soon after Peron and de Freycinet returned from the 1804 Baudin voyage. Peron, who provided the inscription, died in 1810.
• Subject
  Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842
  Cartographers--France.
  Explorers--France--Portraits.
  Australia--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial works.
  
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