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[Man and woman from New Caledonia]Femme de l'Ile Beaupré Homme de l'Ile Beaupré. Atlas du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, No 34
Piron del Copia sculp. Dien scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving, sheet 450 x 315mm (17¾ x 12½"). Creasing on left.
Man and woman from the island of Beautemps-Beaupré, part of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. Plate from 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', compiled by Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Labillardière was the botanist on board an expedition led by Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux which in 1791-3 attempted to find Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, who disappeared in 1788 after setting sail from Botany Bay (Australia). Despite finding no trace of La Pérouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists (and sketches by the expedition's artist Jean Piron) which were published in this book. Beautemps-Beaupré was in fact named after the hydropgrapher and explorer Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766-1854), who was also part of the expedition.
[Ref: 43176] £160.00
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving, sheet 450 x 315mm (17¾ x 12½"). Creasing on left.
Man and woman from the island of Beautemps-Beaupré, part of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. Plate from 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', compiled by Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Labillardière was the botanist on board an expedition led by Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux which in 1791-3 attempted to find Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, who disappeared in 1788 after setting sail from Botany Bay (Australia). Despite finding no trace of La Pérouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists (and sketches by the expedition's artist Jean Piron) which were published in this book. Beautemps-Beaupré was in fact named after the hydropgrapher and explorer Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766-1854), who was also part of the expedition.
[Ref: 43176] £160.00