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[ View in Polynesia].

[ANON.]

VAILLANT'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION

TR23589

Coloured lithograph. 190 by 380mm. N.p., c. 1836


A finely detailed image, depicting the crew of the Bonite anchored off an unnamed Polynesian island, presumably collecting provisions or scientific samples. Vaillant's 1836-7 circumnavigation in the Bonite was designed to promote French interests in South America, the Pacific and the Far East.

 Date: 1836