Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Sea elephants, or elephant seals (Phoca proboscidea. N.), King Island, Bass Strait

Marie-Alexandre DUPARC (engraver), Victor PILLEMENT (engraver), Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR (after)
Sea elephants, or elephant seals (Phoca proboscidea. N.), King Island, Bass Strait
(Eléphant-marin, ou phoque à trompe, de l'ile King, , dans le détroit de Bass)
 1824
plate 62 in the Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes (Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands) atlas. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1824, 2nd edition

Medium
etching and engraving

Measurements
14.7 × 20.7 cm (image) 24.1 × 32.5 cm (plate) 27.7 × 36.9 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Joe White Bequest, 2010

Gallery location
Not on display

Download

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Inscription
printed in ink above image u.r.: 62 .
Printed in ink in image l.l.: Long.r (r in superscript above . ) des Phoques 25 à 30 pieds .
Printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: C . A. Lesueur del. J.Milbert direx. Gravé à l'eau-forte par Pillement et terminé par Duparc .
printed in ink below image l.c.: NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE : Île King . / L'ÉLÉPHANT - MARIN ou PHOQUE À TROMPE . (Phoca proboscidea , N.) / Vue de la Baie des Eléphants .

Accession Number
2010.96.63

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Related

Folio

Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands

Part of folio

General chart of New Holland

Part of folio

Chart of a part of the east coast of Van Diemen's Land

Part of folio

Bara-ourou, young native of Van Dieman's Land

Part of folio

Ouriage, young nature of Van Diemen's Land

Part of folio

Arra-maïda, a young Bruny Island woman, Van Diemen's Land

Part of folio

Weapons and Ornaments

Part of folio

Native tombs on Maria Island. A View of a part of Maria Island and of Marion Bay, Van Diemen's Land

Part of folio

Plan of King George Sound, Nuyts Land (by Louis de Freycinet, Faure and Ransonnet, in the year 1803) Plan of Géographe Bay, Leeuwin Land (by Louise and Henri Freycinet, Montbazin and Boullanger, in the year 1803)

Part of folio

Plan of Cumberland Country, New South Wales: New Holland (based on English maps, incorporating the French observations)

Part of folio

Plan of Sydney Town, capital of the English colonies in the Southern Lands

Part of folio

Gnoung-a-gnoung-a, Mour-re-mour-ga (Called Collins), adult native of the environs of Port Jackson

Part of folio

Cour-rou-bari-gal, sauvage des environs du Port Jackson

Part of folio

Bedgi-Bedgi, young man of the Gweagal tribe, New South Wales

Part of folio

Ourou-Maré (called Bulldog), a young warrior of the Gweagal tribe, New South Wales

Part of folio

Oui-ré-kine, a native woman of the environs of Port Jackson

Part of folio

Young woman of the Buruberongal tribe, with her child on her shoulders, New South Wales

Part of folio

Seafaring

Part of folio

Native huts. Peron Peninsula. Eendracht Land (View of Bernier Island and part of Dorre Island)

Part of folio

Malay horseman seen at Kupang

Part of folio

Malay infantryman from Solor Island, seen at Kupang

Part of folio

Asterina, a young Malay slave from Roti Island, seen at Kupang

Part of folio

Malay games, utensils and arts

Part of folio

Malay combs and various utensils for betel users

Part of folio

Malay tombs, near Kupang. The Kupang fort can be seen in the background.

Part of folio

Details of a Chinese tomb, Timor

Part of folio

Native of the Mozambique coast

Part of folio

Wombats (Phascolonus wombat. N.), King Island, Bass Strait

Part of folio

Molluscs and zoophytes

Part of folio

Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus crumeniferus. N. ), Timor

Part of folio

New Holland cassowaries, Kangaroo Island

Explore the collection

Cabinet W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator) Anguish August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK Chair Carlo BUGATTI The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas POUSSIN Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) Porch of St Trophines, Arles, France A.Hugh FISHER Winter, from The four seasons FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer) Adoration of the Magi UNKNOWN; Fredericus ZUCCHERPO (after) Evening Dress UNKNOWN Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence Jusepe de RIBERA Untitled UNKNOWN Head of a cow Simon Andreas KRAUSS Pickaback UNKNOWN; Joshua REYNOLDS (after) La Ramassel . UNKNOWN Landscape with ruins CLAUDE LORRAIN (Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight) Joseph WRIGHT of Derby Mary, Lady Vere William LARKIN An aged woman looking out of a window Johannes Christianus JANSON Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends Jacopo AMIGONI Untitled W HAVELL Procession of soldiers UNKNOWN Rembrandt REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of) Teacup and saucer MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer) Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke William BEECHEY Untitled (Two studies) John RUSKIN Pietà CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller) The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Capital Letter - I UNKNOWN Writing cabinet Rene DUBOIS Forest and sun Max ERNST