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This view of Port Louis in Mauritius is from Laplace’s second voyage of circumnavigation which consolidated French interests in the Pacific entitled ‘Voyage Autour du Monde … La Favorite’. Dunmore states ‘the importance of the expeditions of the Venus, the Artemise and the Heroine in laying the foundations for the subsequent sharing-out of Oceania should never be overlooked …’ Dunmore ‘French Exploration of the Pacific’ pp. 317-40; Judd & Lind ‘Voyages to Hawaii before 1860’ 105; Sabin 38983.
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre T.

Port-Louis (Ile de France)

Paris, 1835
220 x 305 mm., an uncoloured aquatint on India paper, with minor water stain upper left corner away from the image, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 2810
£ 800
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