• Title
  Vue prise sur le cours de la riviere Nepean, au desssus de l'habitation de Mr. Macarthur, dans le Camdenshire, 1828 / engraved by Louis Pierre Alphonse Bichebois after Edmond Bigot de La Touanne
• Creator
  Louis Pierre Alphonse Bichebois, 1801-1850
• Call number
  SV/333
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1828
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  9616373
• Physical Description
  1 print - hand coloured lithograph - 18.7 x 27.7 cm (image); 30.3 x 40 cm (sheet)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Edmond Bigot de La Touanne (active 1824-1828) was a French topographical artist and naval officer. He was a lieutenant on the Thétis expedition to the South Seas in 1824-1826 under the command of the French explorer Hyacinthe de Bougainville. Bougainville, son of notable admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville, had joined Baudin's earlier expedition to Australia as a young sailor in 1800.
  
  In 1824, Bougainville set out to circumnavigate the globe, and in 1825 the warships Thétis and Espérance arrived at Port Jackson and stayed in Sydney for three months. During this time, Bougainville and his crew travelled as widely as possible in the colony, to Botany Bay, Camden, the Warragamba River and the Blue Mountains. La Touanne was referred to by Bougainville in his journal as a 'faithful companion on my travels.' Due to the speed with which the expedition had been put together, no official artist was included on board, so La Touanne's drawings are the only pictorial record of the voyage.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
  Edmond Bigot de La Touanne, Design & Art Australia Online, https://www.daao.org.au (accessed 29 November 2018)
• Scope and Content
  Comprises hand coloured lithograph depicting the Nepean Gorge below Macarthur's house Camden Park, with a group of Aboriginal people wearing patterned cloaks sitting and standing by a smoking fire on the shore. It was created by Louis Pierre Alphonse Bichebois from the original drawing by Edmond Bigot de la Touanne, and produced at the premises of Pierre Langlumé. The figures were added by V. Adam in Paris. It was originally published in 1828 in the album 'Album Pittoresque de la Frégate La Thétis et de la Corvette L’Espérance', a folio of 35 lithographic plates relating to the 1824-1826 voyage to the South Seas on the Thétis.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Below centre: 'Vue prise sur le cours de la riviere Nepean, au dessus de l'habitation de Mr. Macarthur, dans le Camdenshire'. '(Nouvelle Galles meriodinale.)'
  Below left: 'Bichebois fig. par V. Adam, d'apres E. B. de la Touanne'
  Below right: 'Lith. de Langlume, rue de la Abbaye, No. 4'
  Upper right: 'PL 28.'
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bichebois, Louis Pierre Alphonse, 1801-1850
  La Touanne, E. B. de (Edmond B. de), vicomte
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Nepean River (N.S.W.)
  Camden Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20196101

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