Buru Island

After de Sainson from the series: Voyage of the Astrolabe

Circa 1833

Fine watercolor impression, wide margins, two small traces of oxidation in the outer edges.

Publisher's blind stamp.

This voyage undertaken by Dumont d'Urville on the corvette Astrolabe between 1826 and 1829 was the most important French expedition ordered by the government between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leaving Toulon on April 25, 1826, after a long journey and several stops that took her as far as Australia and then New Zealand, she returned to Marseille on February 24, 1829.