print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.162
- Description
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Several allegorical figures and winged Spirits surrounding an unrolled map; frontispiece to Millet-Mureau's 'Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde', published in 1797. c.1797
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1795-1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 413 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 270 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Frontispiece to ''Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde', an account of a Pérouse's expedition (1785-88) including narrative, maps and illustrations, and published posthumously in 1797 (four volumes, in-4o).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Expedition of La Pérouse 1785-1788
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde (1797)
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.162
