Artist: James Heath (1757-1834) after Gaspard Duché de Vancy (1756-1788)
Title: Inhabitants and Monuments of Easter Island
Date: 1798
School: British, British XVIIIth-century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 250 x 340mm (plate)
Watermark: 1803
Inscriptions/marks: lower left border <<Vancy delt.>>; lower right border <<Heath sculp.>>; lower border centre <<Published as the Act directs, Nov.r. 1st. 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 11 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.
Inhabitants and Monuments
of Easter Island
1798
$1,500.00
French explorer La Pérouse on Rapanui Easter Island
