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Mollusques et Zoophytes Plate XXIX from 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes ... Partie Historique'
Charles Alexandre Lesueur1807
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
These colourful sea creatures were amongst the thousands of new specimens recorded during French explorer Nicolas Baudin's expedition to map the coastline of Australila between 1801 and 1803. The blue bottle on the left is all-too-familiar to most Australians!
This plate is from 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes'.
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- Title: Mollusques et Zoophytes Plate XXIX from 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes ... Partie Historique'
- Creator: Charles Alexandre Lesueur
- Date: 1807
- Location: Paris
- Type: Engraving
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Coloured engraving on paper.
- Dimensions: 300 x 221 mm
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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