[Rarebooks] FS: Flinders / Baudoin Australian Voyages and Their Art

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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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