Drawings by Charles Alexandre Lesueur. Lesueur was a French naturalists, explorer and rese
Drawings by Charles Alexandre Lesueur. Lesueur was a French naturalists, explorer and researcher. In 1801, when Lesueur was in his early twenties, he traveled from France on an expedition to Tasmania and Australia. Initially, his role was supposed to be as an artists for the expedition but when the expedition’s zoologists died he took over those duties as well. During the expedition the crew collected close to 100,000 different specimens of which 2,500 were newly discovered species and Lesueur drew at least 1,500 of the collected specimens. During the trip he also made the only known drawings of the now-extinct King Island emus in their natural habitat. Image sources here, here and here -- source link
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