Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy - Voyage to the South Pole on the Astrolabe by Dumont D'Urville - 1846
  • Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy - Voyage to the South Pole on the Astrolabe by Dumont D'Urville - 1846
  • Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy - Voyage to the South Pole on the Astrolabe by Dumont D'Urville - 1846

Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy - Voyage to the South Pole on the Astrolabe by Dumont D'Urville - 1846

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Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy

Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel

Published in 1846

Atlas of Natural History - Botany

Cryptogamy

Planche botanique
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Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy

Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel.

These are engravings of the nineteenth century taken in watercolor from the ninth and tenth issues of an Atlas of Natural History.

The plates were printed progressively in several issues to form the final Atlas of Natural History.

The names of the painters, engravers, printer and editor are indicated at the bottom of each engraving

Author: Jules Dumont d'Urville

Scientific editor: Honoré Jacquinot

Publication date: 1846

Publisher: Gide in Paris

Cryptogamy is the study of plants without flowers

Dimensions: 52x36cm 

Small tears on the edge

A little history to avoid confusion between La Pérouse's Frégate de l'Astrolabe and Dumont d'Urville's Corvette de l'Astrolabe.

During his voyage to retrace the steps of La Pérouse's lost expedition under the reign of Louis XVI in 1789, Dumont d'Urville decided, as a tribute, to rename his vessel La Coquille in L'Astrolabe, La Pérouse's lost vessel whose shipwreck remains he found.

During his new geographical exploration campaign in the waters of the South Pole, it was aboard this ship, the Corvette L'Astrolabe, that Dumont d'Urville discovered the Adélie Land in Antarctica.

These superb plates date from that exploration campaign.

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