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hand-coloured aquatint.
EXTREMELY RARE view from ‘Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine … La Favorite … 1830, 1831, 1832 [Vol. 1 ], plate number 29, under the direction of Louis Auguste de Sainson with Arthus Bertrand, editeur.
“La Favorite” was one of several ships sent out by the France in the 1820/1830s to compete with similar expeditions by other countries. These were voyages with political/territorial objectives via commercial diplomatic, scientific and artistic means, intending to expand French influence particularly in Southeast Asia to counter British interests.
Barthelemy Lauvergne (1805-1871) was a French painter, maritime, and landscape artist active in the mid 19th C. He accompanied the French naval officer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842) onboard the L’Astrolabe (1826-1829), Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) on La Favorite (1830-1832), and Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (1793-1858) on La Bonite (1836-1837).
Sigismond Himely (1801-1872) was a mid 19th C. Swiss painter, viewmaker, acquaint engraver active in Paris known for his excellent aquatints.
Louis Auguste de Sainson (1800-1877) was a French artist, lithographer, and engraver. He worked as a draughtsman on the Astrolabe in its circumnavigation of the globe in 1826-1829, and then spent almost 5 years to create the prints for the publication of its expedition narrative.
with La Favorite dry seal, foxing along margins, barely affecting plate.
