Joseph Pitt Couthouy

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and naturalist, was appointed conchologist to the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes. Couthouy visited Australia as part of the expedition in 1839.

Citations

  • 'Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition’.

  • Bartlett, H. (1940), 'The reports of the Wilkes Expedition, and the work of the specialists in science’, Philadelphia, USA : in Centenary Celebration: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition of the United States Navy 1838-1842.

  • Bayer, Frederick M. (1985), 'The invertebrates of the U.S. Exploring Expedition’, Washington, DC, USA : in H. Viola & C. Margolis, Magnificent Voyagers: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.

  • Bryan, G. (1940), 'The purpose, equipment and personnel of the Wilkes Expedition’, Philadelphia, USA : in Centenary Celebration: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition of the United States Navy 1838-1842.

  • (1856), 'Atlas’, (Illustrations by Joseph Drayton and Joseph Pitt Couthouy).

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870