[Rarebooks] FS: The Encounter , 1802. Art of the Flinders & Baudoin Voyages”

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TITLE: “The Encounter, 1802. Art of the Flinders and Baudoin Voyages”

By Sarah Thomas.
Published in Adelaide by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2002.

DISCUSSION: "In 2002, Australia commemorates the historic encounter
between the pioneering maritime explorers Matthew Flinders and Nicolas
Baudin off the south coast of South Australia in 1802. One ship was
British, the Investigator, commanded by Matthew Flinders who was
attempting to circumnavigate the continent and who was the first to give
it the name 'Australia'. The other ship was French, Le Geographe, whose
commander Nicolas Baudin had been sent by Napoleon to investigate the
Antipodes. For both the French and British in 1802 the South Pacific was
as remote and foreign as it was possible to be. And the two empires, at
the height of their maritime, military, economic, artistic and scientific
powers, were chief rivals. When the two ships met, they cautiously
identified themselves, but a friendly meeting ensued, in spite of the fact
that the two countries had officially been at war. For Flinders and
Baudin, their passion for their exploration and science overrode the
ideologies of their nations.

The Art Gallery of South Australia presents a major art exhibition to
commemorate the bicentenary of this historic meeting. The Encounter, 1802:
Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages tells the fascinating story of the
encounter through the eyes of the important artists on board the two
voyages: William Westall (1781-1850) and Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) on
the Investigator, and Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777-1804) and
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846) on Le Geographe. Each of the artists
is important in their own right: Bauer is regarded as the greatest natural
history artist of all time; Westall is Australia's first professional
landscape artist; Lesueur created supremely beautiful images of our exotic
marine life and Petit's portraits of Australia's indigenous people are
some of the most sensitive created at the beginning of the nineteenth
century.

Four years in the making, the exhibition The Encounter, 1802 presents a
range of very significant works of art from British, French, Austrian and
Australian collections, many of which have never been seen before in
Australia. Amongst them are the first recorded images of South Australia,
never seen here before, and of Australian wildlife that has since become
extinct. Sketches made ashore, delicate watercolours created at sea,
paintings completed on return to Europe and other materials collected on
each journey have been generously lent to South Australia to mark this
important bicentenary. This is the first time that the works from each of
the expeditions have been shown together. Too fragile to travel widely,
these precious works of art cannot tour Australia and will be shown only
in Adelaide."

A scarce catalog.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 9.5"x12", 228 pages, color illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: The covers have some light wear and soil (please see the
photos, above and below), and there is a small ding at the top of the
outer corner of the rear cover. The book interior is clean and nice, with
a tight binding.

PRICE:  $250 -

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