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C1798
Canoe of Easter Island.
Artist:
Lieutenant Michel Francois Blondela (1741 - 1788)
Engraving of a canoe of Easter Island. La Perouse visited Easter Island on 8 April 1786 in the ships the Boussole and Astrolabe. From, Charts and Plates to La Perouse’s Voyage.
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Full Title:
Canoe of Easter Island.
Date:
C1798
Artist:
Lieutenant Michel Francois Blondela (1741 - 1788)
Condition:
Three small worm holes in margin, will matt over, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
210mm
x 161mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1798
Description:
Engraving of a canoe of Easter Island. La Perouse visited Easter Island on 8 April 1786 in the ships the Boussole and Astrolabe.
From, Charts and Plates to La Perouse’s Voyage.
Biography:
Lieutenant Michel Francois Blondela (1741-1788)
Blondela entered the French military as a volunteer in 1777 and continued his naval service on the east coast of the United States, in the West Indies and back in France before joining the La Pérouse expedition. While not officially assigned as artist to the expedition, Blondela’s talents were a great asset to the voyage’s visual record. La Pérouse commented on Blondela in his journal, “he applies himself with a degree of assiduity, and executes with an intelligence, order and neatness, that are deserving of the highest encomiums”
