Foret au Havre Carteret(Nouvelle - Irlande)
de Sainson pinx. Himely sc.
J. Tastu edit. Finot imp: [Paris, 1835.]
Aquatint on india laid paper, sheet 520 x 335mm. 20½" x 13¼". Trimmed to plate on two sides.
European explorers crossing a river in the rain forest of New Ireland Island, Papua New Guinea. The figure seated on the left bank sketching in a portfolio seems to be the expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887). Numbered 'Pl.209' upper right. From Cyrille Pierre The´odore Laplace's 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832...'
See NLA: 2702822. BL: 002075877.
[Ref: 18757] £220.00
J. Tastu edit. Finot imp: [Paris, 1835.]
Aquatint on india laid paper, sheet 520 x 335mm. 20½" x 13¼". Trimmed to plate on two sides.
European explorers crossing a river in the rain forest of New Ireland Island, Papua New Guinea. The figure seated on the left bank sketching in a portfolio seems to be the expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887). Numbered 'Pl.209' upper right. From Cyrille Pierre The´odore Laplace's 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832...'
See NLA: 2702822. BL: 002075877.
[Ref: 18757] £220.00