VUE D’UNE PAGODE DU HAVRE OFFAK, ILE WAIGIOU (Indonesia)

This folio, hand-colored engraving is from Louis-Isidore Duperrey’s Voyage autour du monde,
sur la corvette La Coquille, pendant les années 1822-25, sous le ministère et conformement
aux instructions de … ministre de la marine; et publié sous les auspices de M. le Cte. de
Chabrol, ministre de la marine et des Colonies. The work was published in Paris by  Firmin
Didot for A. Bertrans between 1826 and 1830. The work illustrated costumes, landscapes,
and exotic animals encountered on the voyage.

The voyage, led by Duperrey, concentrated on the exploration of the Pacific. He had already
circumnavigated the globe under Freycinet. Dumont d’Urville, who would later lead his own
expeditions in the Pacific, was Duperrey’s second-in-command, Réné Lesson was the naturalist
on the voyage. The Coquille called at Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Concepciõn, Callao, and Payta.
The Pacific islands visited were the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Tonga,
Rotuma, the Gilbert and Caroline Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Australia was visited twice, and explorations made of New Zealand and the Maoris were of particular significance. Vast quantities of ethnographic and scientific data were collected. Before returning to Marseilles, Java, Mauritius, and Ascension were visited” (Hill p.90).