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Plan du Port Clermont-Tonnerre
| 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 |
| Condition | Tear perfectly restored |
| Coloring | colored |
| Technique | Lithography |
Reproduction:
19.50 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )