#854 Josephine's Ark | Rew Hanks
$2,600.00
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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