A. Prevost (after)
Coutant (engraver)
Kanguroo Laineux: (Kangurus Laniger. N.), Plate 9
Potoroo White, Male: (Hypsiprymnus White. N.),
a Sa tete. Plate 10
from The Atlas Zoologique folio accompanying Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi, sur les corvettes de Sa Majesté l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 Langlois
Langlois, Paris: 1824
Hand-colored engravings
13 x 19.5 inches sheet, average approximate
9.5 x 12.5 inches image, average approximate
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Kangaroo Prints
Paris: 1824
Paris: 1824
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This rare pair of kangaroo prints is from a series ranking among the finest natural history studies ever made. They were issued in the Zoologie section of the official report by Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842) on his voyage to the Pacific in the corvettes Uranie and Physicienne from 1817-20.
The Uranie, with a crew of 123 men (and Freycinet's wife Rose, who was smuggled on board, and became the first white woman to land in Western Austrailia) entered the Pacific from the west. Freycinet was charged by the French government to make scientific observations on natural history, geography, magnetism, and meteorology and the measurement of the southern hemisphere. The voyagers visited Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Rio de Janeiro and Tierra del Fuego and recorded a large number of highly exotic zoological specimens, many of which were new to science. These were drawn by the greatest French natural history artists of the day for this report, including Oudart and Prevost.
References:
Borba de Moraes p. 327; Brunet 1392; Chadenat 5058; Ferguson 941; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.96-7; Nissen ZBI 1425; Sabin 25916; Wood p. 349. Honeyman 1374. Hill, p. 425 (describing complete set). HBS 24202