1807 Nicolas Baudin & N M Petit Antique Print of Tasmanian Aboriginal, Ourlaga Cooks Voyages to the Emperor of Japan)

to the Emperor of Japan)

Lacépède continued the part of the Histoire Naturelle which dealt with animals

and noted in his maps the indigenous name of Amamocka

He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century

before reaching Tinian in the Mariana Islands

1807 Nicolas Baudin & N M Petit Antique Print of Tasmanian Aboriginal, Ourlaga Cooks Voyages to the Emperor of Japan)Title : Terre De Diemen Ourlaga Size: 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1807 Ref #: 93089 Description: This exquisite, rare original hand coloured copper plate engraved antique print of Tasmanian Ourlaga, visited by Baudin Expedition to Australia in Feb. 1802, was engraved by Barthlemy Roger, after Nicolas Martin Petit (the offical artist on the ship Gographe) and was published by Francois Peron (1775 1810) in the 1st