Charles Alexandre Lesueur sketches, 1799

Mss.Film.412

Date: 1799 | Size: 5 microfilm_reel(s)

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Abstract

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.

Background note

Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a naturalist and artist.

Collection Information

Physical description

5 microfilm reels.

Provenance

Acquired from Gilbert Chinard and accessioned, 1948.

Location of originals:

Originals in Musée-Bibliothèque, Le Havre, France.

Alternate formats available

Paper prints of the American sketchbooks (made from the microfilm) is also available in the repository.

Early American History Note

This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

See 016.9173V19A located in Reading Room. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1938. "The American sketchbooks of a French naturalist, 1816-1837; a description of the Charles Alexandre Lesueur collection, with a brief account of the artist" by R.W.G. Vail.

Indexing Terms

Genre(s)

Drawings.
Microfilm Collection
Paintings.

Subject(s)

Birds.
Botanical illustration.
Fishes.
Natural history -- Australia.
Natural history illustration.
Plants.
Zoological illustration.

Detailed Inventory

Photographs from American Philosophical Photograph Collection				Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
F8.58.1 "Entree du port de Newhaven" (England)	1815	Size: 25.5 x 21.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: "Les falaises de craie datent du Cretace superieur plus preciesement d'un etage appele Companien que l'on retrouve en France pres de Dieppe." Museum of Natural History, Le Havre France
F8.58.2 "Mine pres de Redruth" (Cornwall, England)	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: "C'est en tant que dessinateur de geologie que C.A. Lesueur part pour deux ans aux Etats-Unis. En toute logique, il visite une mine dans la region d Redruth." Museum of Natural History, Le Havre France
F8.58.3 St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.4 Boats, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England?	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.5 View of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.6 "Baie de Saint Michael's Mount" Cornwall England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.7 "Scene de vie dans une petite ville des Cornouailles" Cornwall England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: "La ville n'est pas precisement identifiee, elle se situe probablement a proximite de Penzance, qui est aujourd'hui las plus grande ville des Cornouailles" Museum of Natural History, Le Havre France.
F8.58.8 "a Penzance" England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.9 "Phare de Land's End, extreme ouest de la Cornouailles" Cornwall England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.10 "Observatoire de Greenwich, environs de Londres" Greenwich England	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.11 "Site megalithique de Stonehenge (Wiltshire)" England 1 of 2	1815 August	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.12 "Site megalithique de Stonehenge (Wiltshire)" England 2 of 2	1815 August	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.13 "Naufrage d'un batiment de la Compagnie des Indes sur les cotes anglaises"	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: "Les premiers comptoirs commerciaux du Royaume-Uni rmontent a la fin du 16e siecle. Au 19e, il s'agit du plus grand empire commercial du monde." Museum of Natural History, Le Havre France
F8.58.14 "Tempete en Atlantique".	1815	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: "Mon cher pere. Nour sommes partis de Falmouth le 16 Novembre 1815, arrives a la Barbade le 31 Decembre apres 45 jours de traverse et avoir essuye plusieurs tempetes....notre grande vergue a ete cassee au milieu du voyage." 7 Fevrier 1816 Saint Pierre de la Martinique. C.A. Lesueur Sur la ship Louisia
F8.58.15 "A bord de la Louisia"	1815 December 29	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript AJXV573 Paris Archives Nationales
F8.58.16 "Depart St. Croix 23 Avril 1816"	1816 April 23	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.17 "Quatre vues de Saint Eustache" Antilles	1816	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.18 "Vegetation tropicale de l'ile de Saint Eustache, Antilles"	1816	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.58.19 Saint Eustache Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816
F8.58.20 Crater at St. Eustaches, Antilles	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816
F8.58.21 "La Soufriere, volcan de la Guadeloupe (Antilles)"	1816	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.60.10 "Ile de la Guadeloupe (Antilles)"	1816	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.60.11 "Depart Guadaloupe", Antilles	1816	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.60.12 Lesser Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint		Request Item
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F8.60.13 Lesser Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.14 Lesser Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.15 Lesser Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.16 Lesser Antilles?	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.17 Lake in St. Dominique, Antilles	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.18 Lake in St. Dominique, Antilles	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.19 St. Vincent, Antilles	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816
F8.60.20 St. Vincent, Antilles	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Probably dated 1816
F8.60.21 "Route entre les a crateres de St. Vincent"	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Date probably 1816.
F8.60.22 "Lake Erie and Black Lake" (Great Black Swamp)	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Fish: Maxostoma macrolepidotum (carp)
F8.60.23 "Middletown le 26 Auot 1816", Connecticut	1816 August 26	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.60.24 "Quartier de Germantown, Philadelphie"	1816-1825	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.12 Study of heads	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.13 "From Golden Swan Tavern before reaching Mt. Airy"	1826	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.14 Two boats and houses at waterfront. Buildings at top of hill.	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.15 Three boats on water. House on top of hill.	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.16 Two people at base of hill	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.17 View of water and rock outcropping	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.18 View of large house, bridge at river	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.19 Sketch of town	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.20 Faint sketch of building	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.21 Sketch of town. Log house. Covered wagon.	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.22 Faint sketch of river with rafts and hills	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.23 View of brook, fence and trees	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.24 View of trees in forefront, fence and houses in background	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.25 View of trees in forefront, fence and houses in background	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.26 View of stone bridge, fence and houses on rolling hills	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint		Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: View of Germantown, Pennsylvania?
F8.61.27 View of river and Three storied house.	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint		Request Item
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F8.61.28 View of tall buildings, fencing and cows in pasture.	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
F8.61.29 Studies of heads and hats	undated	Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprint	LH-B-33	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Possibly pictured David H. Roads, Ed Farel, T.H. Weissman