Charles Alexandre Lesueur sketches, 1799 1799

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur sketches, 1799 1799

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This collection contains color slides of drawings and watercolors on vellum made by Lesueur in 1799, when he accompanied Baudin and Francois Péron on their scientific expedition to Australia. The microfilm is of Lesueur's American sketchbooks.

5.0 Microfilm reel(s)

American Philosophical Society

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Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, 1778-1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and naturalist, was born on January 1, 1778, at Le Havre, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also pu...