Aboriginal Burial Ceremony. Enterrement des Naturels de l’Australie. D’Urville c1834

$145.00

Indigenous Australian native's Burial Ceremony. Portraits antique print. Femme de la Tasmanie (Tasmanian Woman – with baby in kangaroo skin sling on back).

Original antique engravings for Voyages Pittoresque Autour de Monde (Picturesque Voyages around the World), which comprised a general resume of the voyages of the discoveries of Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver, D'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders, Krunsenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, D'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, B.Morrel, etc., published in Paris during 1834 and 1835, under the direction of Dumont d'Urville.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), was a French naval officer and voyage captain who explored the south-west Pacific regions at the beginning of the nineteenth century. D'Urville combined engravings from the drawings by his official expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887), with sketches and engravings from previous voyages (notably those from Captain Cook's third voyage between 1776 and 1780).

Most of the engravings were printed two on a page, one above the other as with this one. Many have been coloured at some time since printing – as with this pair of engravings, with fine later hand-colour. The page measures 265 x 175mm (approximately 10.5 x 7 inches).