Entrée de la Riviére de Paiou. (Iles Vanikoro)

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Article ID ASS1289

Title

Entrée de la Riviére de Paiou. (Iles Vanikoro)

Description

View shows the river Riviére de Paiou; on the island of Vanikoro. It belongs to the Solomon Islands and is located in the South Pacific.

Year

ca. 1880

Artist

Lemercier (1803-1887)

Huge Parisian firm of lithographic printers founded by Joseph Rose Lemercier (1803-1887), who began as the foreman for Langlumé in 1825. Working on his own account from 1827, 1829-36 in partnership with Bénard association formed in 1837 according to IFF catalogue for Joseph Lemercier. The firm was still active in 1841.

Historical Description

Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu. The country takes its name from the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the North Solomon Islands (part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes outlying islands, such as Rennell and Bellona, and the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands were rediscovered by Philipp Carteret in 1767 after being "lost" for 200 years due to a mapping error. Missionaries began visiting the Solomon Islands in the mid-19th century. They made little progress at first because "Amsel", the often brutal recruitment and resettlement of workers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji, led to a series of reprisals and massacres. In 1885, the Germans declared a protectorate over the north islands to form the German protectorate of the Solomon Islands. The evils of labor trade prompted the United Kingdom to declare a protectorate over the southern islands, the protectorate of the British Solomon Islands, in June 1893 With the conclusion of the Samoa Treaty in Berlin in 1899, the border between the two areas of interest was drawn east of the islands of Buka and Bougainville, which now belong to Papua New Guinea.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)27 x 41 cm
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueLithography

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