Plan du Port Clermont-Tonnerre

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Article ID SE0299

Title

Plan du Port Clermont-Tonnerre

Description

Seachart shows the port of Clermont-Tonnerre between the island. Bougainvilleaund Grande Sciantan, islands of the Salomones in the Pacific Ocean.

Year

dated 1828

Artist

Tardieu (1746-1816)

Ambroise Tardieu ( 1788 - 1841 in Paris) was an eminent French cartographer and engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of the United States. Tardieu's son, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), was also an artist and a famous forensic medical scholar, who supplied the illustrations for Dr. Pierre François Olive Rayer's three-volume Traité des maladies des reins (1839-41), a treatise on diseases of the kidneys.

Historical Description

The Society Islands in French Polonesia. The archipelago is suspected to have been named by Captain James Cook during his first voyage in 1769, supposedly in honour of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands. However, Cook himself stated in his journal that he called the islands Society as they lay contiguous to one another.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)51 x 45
ConditionTear perfectly restored
Coloringcolored
TechniqueLithography

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