aux ordres du Ct. Dumont D'Urville, dans le coup de vent du Janvier 1840. Parages de cercle Polaire Antarctique.
Dess. et Lith. par Louis Le Breton.
Imp. Auguste Bry, 114 r. du Bac, Paris. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 450 x 635mm (17¾ x 25"). Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line. Nicks in edges.
One of two very rare separately-published lithographs, this showing the Astrolabe and the Zélée in a hurricane, surrounded by icebergs and penguins. In 1837 Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was sent to try to claim the southern magnetic pole for France. He returned to home in 1840 and was killed in France's first railway disaster two years later.
[Ref: 45618] £850.00
Imp. Auguste Bry, 114 r. du Bac, Paris. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 450 x 635mm (17¾ x 25"). Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line. Nicks in edges.
One of two very rare separately-published lithographs, this showing the Astrolabe and the Zélée in a hurricane, surrounded by icebergs and penguins. In 1837 Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was sent to try to claim the southern magnetic pole for France. He returned to home in 1840 and was killed in France's first railway disaster two years later.
[Ref: 45618] £850.00