• Title
  [Views of King George Sound, W.A., and its inhabitants drawn during the voyage of the Astrolabe, 1833] / lithographs by various artists from original drawings by Louis Auguste de Sainson
• Call number
  PXD 1060
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [Paris] : J. Tastu, [1833]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  902007
• Physical Description
  8 prints - lithographs, hand-coloured
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Louis Auguste de Sainson, a watercolourist and draughtsman, was born in Paris in 1800. He began his naval career in 1825, volunteering to join the expedition of the ‘Astrolabe’ as a draughtsman in 1826. The expedition, under the command of Dumont d'Urville, visited King George Sound on the south coast of West Australia in October 1826 finding a safe anchorage, water supply and firewood .
  
  The ‘Astrolabe’ returned to France in April 1829. From June 1829 to December 1834 de Sainson was a member of the editorial team preparing the official account of the expedition for publication.
  
  References:
  Australian Aborigines, Hordern House, June 2010. http://www.hordern.com (accessed 12 August 2010)
  Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. http://www.daao.org.au (accessed 12 August 2010)
• Scope and Content
  1. Aiguade de L’Astrolabe au Port du Roi Georges, (Nelle. Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Langlume; Leborne lith. Fig. par V. Adam, Plate 10.
  Image 22.0 x 31.5, on sheet 34.0 x 52.0 cm.
  
  2. Observatoire de L’Astrolabe au port du Roi Georges, vu de la presqu’ile Possession. (Nelle. Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Langlume; Tirpenne et Monthelier, Figures par V. Adam, Plate 13.
  Image 18.0 x 31.3 cm, on sheet 34.0 x 52.3 cm.
  
  3. Vue de la Riviere des Francais, au port du Roi Georges a 4 milles de son embouchure, (Nouvelle Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Langlume; Deroy lith., Plate 14.
  Image 19.5 x 27.8 cm, on sheet 34.0 x 52.0 cm.
  
  4. Vue d’un Etang pres la Baie du Roi Georges, (Nelle. Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Langlume; Ed. hostein lith. 1829, Plate 15.
  Image 22.2 x 36.0 cm, on sheet approx. 34.0 x 52.0 cm.
  
  5. Vue du Port du Roi Georges, (Nouvelle Hollande.) / de Sainson pinx.; Jacottet lith. Fig. par V. Adam.; Lith. de Lemercier, Plate 16.
  Image 18.5 x 35.0 cm, on sheet approx. 30.0 x 47.0 cm.
  
  6. Le Havre aux Huitres, dans le Port du Roi Georges, (Nelle. Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Lemercier; Alexis Noel del., Plate 19.
  Image 21.4 x 35.8 cm, on sheet approx. 34.0 x 51.5 cm.
  
  7. Port du Roi Georges, (Nouvelle Hollande). Un naturel montre a ses Compagnons les Cadeaux qu’il a recus a bord de l’Astrolabe / de Sainson pinx.; N. Maurin del.; Lith de Langlume, Plate 23.
  Image 20.9 x 32.4 cm, on sheet 33.7 x 52.2 cm.
  
  8. Habitans du Port du Roi Georges. (Nelle. Hollande) / de Sainson pinx.; Lith. de Langlume; Boulanger Lith., Plate 24.
  Image 22.3 x 32.0 cm, on sheet approx. 34.0 x 52.5 cm.
• Language
  French
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artists died before 1955
• Description source
  
  Titled below images
  
  Contents list devised by Xiayu Wu, for the internship component of the Master of Museum Studies course, University of Sydney, August 2010
• General note
  
  Selected plates from Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont D'Urville, capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas Historique. Paris : J. Tastu, 1833.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1195285
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Paper embossed with blind stamp 'Voyage de L'Astrolabe. J. Dumont D'urville. Commandant. J.T.'
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Plate 10 attributed to Alfred Lemercier by National Gallery of Australia. http://nga.gov.au/ (accessed 20 August 2010)
• Conservation note
  
  Remounted 2011
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dumont d'Urville, J. (Jules), 1790-1842
  Noel, Alexis Nicolas, 1791-1871
  Adam, V. (Victor-Jean), 1801-1866
  Maurin, Antoine, 1793-1860
  Tirpenne, Jean Louis, b. 1801
  Monthelier, Jules Alexandre, 1801-1883
  Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1801-1887
  Boulanger, Louis Auguste, 1806-1867
  Deroy, Isidore Laurent, 1797-1886
  Hostein, Edouard Jean Marie, 1804-1886
  Jacottet, Louis Julien, b. 1806
  Langlume
  Leborne, Louis, 1796-1863
  Lemercier, Alfred
  
• Name
  Astrolabe (corvette)
  
• Subject
  Explorers--France.
  Aboriginal Australians--Western Australia.
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  sailors
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  cooking
  landscapes (views)
  harbours
  ships
  tents
  seascapes (views)
  hunting
  guns (small arms)
  boats
  rivers
  rowing boats
  observatories
  water supply
  
• Place
  King George Sound (W.A.)
  Oyster Harbour (W.A.)
  Kalgan River (W.A.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE285892

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