Name/TitleOurou Mare. A young warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe
About this objectNicholas-Martin Petit was the French artist aboard Baudin’s famous voyage of exploration and discovery of 1802-1803, which visited Sydney in 1803.
Petit and the Baudin voyage artists evidently spent a great deal of time with the aborigines when they stayed in Port Jackson in June 1802, and their resulting sketches and portraits form one of the most significant documentary sources for the Sydney tribes. Baudin died on the return voyage to France in 1803 and in 1806 Emperor Napoleon himself gave permission for Lesueur and Péron to publish their findings in a Journal to be called 'Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes (Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands)', written by Péron and illustrated with forty plates by Lesueur.
Peron prepared the journals of maps and historical views for publication. It was one of the finest publications ever issued on early Australia.
MakerNicholas Martin Petit - Artist
Maker RoleArtist
MakerBarthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger - Engraver
Maker RoleEngraver
Date Made1824
Period19th century
Medium and MaterialsPaper, ink, pigment
Place MadeSydney, Australia
Place NotesInitial sketches
Place MadeParis, France
Place NotesPrinted
TechniqueMezzotint
Object TypeIndigenous History
Object numberSF000817
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial - No Derivatives (cc)
Explore by category
Maps and Charts
Date range: 1541-1836
Ship Models
Date range: 1629-1890
Maritime Paintings
Date range: 1793-1849
Manuscripts and Ephemera
Date range: 1768-c1850
Medallions & Convict Tokens
Date range: 1619-1880
Indigenous History
Date range: c1800-1959
Landscapes
Date range: 1768-c1850
Books
Date range: 1694-c1850
Currency and Shares
Date range: 1624-1823
Printed Material
Date range: 1541-1836
Maritime Archaeology
Date range: 1629-1854
Curator's corner
New acquisitions, staff favourites and curios
The mug is decorated with an underglaze and a blue transfer print. On the body, it is titled ‘Emigrants to Australia’. This type of body and glaze was discontinued by 1840. Comparison of the handle shape and the profile of the foot, point to the attribution of manufacture by the Davenport Factory.
Delta was a ship-rigged vessel with two decks and three masts. It was built in Dordrecht, Netherlands in 1839 at the shipyard of Jan Schouten and registered in the same port. Its hull was constructed of oak and sheathed in ‘yellow metal’. Delta was owned by H. van der Sande at the time of its loss and was engaged as a cargo trader.
The Delta carried 29 crew and passengers, while sailing from Melbourne to Batavia in ballast when wrecked at Kenn Reefs on 30 May 1854 whilst under the command of Captain J.G. Kunst. This vessel loss supports the pattern of shipwrecks located on a well-travelled shipping route that was poorly charted until the mid-nineteenth century. The crew of the Delta could see four other shipwrecks at Kenn Reefs at the time of their vessel’s loss.
Important image of a ship associated with Matthew Flinders, that would shortly become one of the most famous early shipwrecks in eastern Australian waters. This is a fine ship’s portrait, by one of the great exponents of the art