Massacre of De Langle, Lemanon
& ten others of the Two Crews
1798

Artist: James Heath (1757-1834) after Ozanne
Title: Massacre of De Langle, Lemanon & ten others of the Two Crews
Date: 1798
School: British, British XVIIIth-century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 250 x 340mm (plate)
Watermark: 1803
Inscriptions/marks: lower left border <<Ozanne del^t.>>; lower right border <<Heath sculp.>>; lower border centre <<Published as the Act directs, Nov.^r. 1^st. 1798, by G. G. & J. Robinson, Pater Noster Row, London.>>
Condition: good condition of a later printing on wove paper with an 1803 watermark.
Description: Plate 66 from Charts and Plates to La Pérouse’s Voyage, published as a separate atlas volume to accompany A voyage around the world, performed in the years, 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, by the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de la Pérouse…. London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1799. Depicts the massacre of the captain of the Astrolabe, Fleuriot De Langle and ten of his crew by the inhabitants of the island of Tutuila in present-day American Samoa in December 1787 .