Creator D'Urville DumontDate 1829Red-capped Parrot, native to southwest Australia, recorded at King Georges Sound, WA, in Dumont D'Urville's Voyage of the Astrolabe 1826-1829. .Comte Jules Dumont d’Urville sailed to Sydney, Hobart and large parts of the Australian coast as part of a lavish expedition of scientific discovery in the Australia-Pacific region, including New Zealand and the East Indies. The scientific illustrations are extraordinarily fine. The account of the Voyage of the Astrolabe was published in 1835. The principal artist was Louis Auguste de Sainson (1800-1887)...(‘Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du roi: pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829’)Source: New York Public Library
