Creator D'Urville Dumont
Date 1829
From Dumont D'Urville's Voyage of the Astrolabe 1826-1829. .Comte Jules Dumont d’Urville sailed to Sydney, Hobart and large parts of the Australian coast as part of a lavish expedition of scientific discovery in the Australia-Pacific region, including New Zealand and the East Indies. The scientific illustrations are extraordinarily fine. The account of the Voyage of the Astrolabe was published in 1835. The principal artist was Louis Auguste de Sainson (1800-1887)...'Colombe a ventre roux', male, Red-bellied fruit dove, New Guinea..(‘Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du roi: pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829’)
Source: New York Public Library
Printed on heavyweight acid-free paper with fade-resistant archival pigments.
White margin to allow matting and framing.
White margin to allow matting and framing.