#854 Josephine's Ark | Rew Hanks
Linocut
Height: 106cm. Width: 75cm.
In 1800 Napoleon endorsed Nicholas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia where one of the ships became known as Josephine’s Ark. It returned to Paris with no fewer than :- 200 hundred live plants, 20 kangaroos, 2 wombats, 4 dwarf emus and 2 black swans over 150 other live birds.
The image was inspired by the Greek myth ‘Leda and the Swan’ and depicts an empowered Josephine Bonaparte.
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Linocut
Height: 106cm. Width: 75cm.
In 1800 Napoleon endorsed Nicholas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia where one of the ships became known as Josephine’s Ark. It returned to Paris with no fewer than :- 200 hundred live plants, 20 kangaroos, 2 wombats, 4 dwarf emus and 2 black swans over 150 other live birds.
The image was inspired by the Greek myth ‘Leda and the Swan’ and depicts an empowered Josephine Bonaparte.
More information about the artist
Linocut
Height: 106cm. Width: 75cm.
In 1800 Napoleon endorsed Nicholas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia where one of the ships became known as Josephine’s Ark. It returned to Paris with no fewer than :- 200 hundred live plants, 20 kangaroos, 2 wombats, 4 dwarf emus and 2 black swans over 150 other live birds.
The image was inspired by the Greek myth ‘Leda and the Swan’ and depicts an empowered Josephine Bonaparte.
More information about the artist