Go Back

Nouvelle Hollande: Baie Des Chiens-Marins Presqu’ile Peron: Entrevue Avec Les Sauvages [New Holland: Shark Bay. Peron Peninsula, Meeting With The Savages]

1825. Hand-coloured engraving, artist, engraver, title and number “12” in plate below image, 23.9 x 30cm (paper). Partially trimmed platemark, old tape, slight foxing, missing portions to margins.

Text includes “J. Arago [1790–1855] delin’t, Duparc [c1760–c1829] sculp’t.” Held in NGA. Illustrated in Louis de Freycinet’s Voyage Autour du Monde: Entrepris par ordre du roi, execute sur les corvettes de S.M. “l’Uranie” et la “Physicienne,” pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, published from 1824 to 1844. Peron Peninsula is in Shark Bay about 750 km north of Perth, Western Australia. Ref: Wiki.

.
Item #CL198-9

Price (AUD): $770.00  other currencies