NEW ZEALAND NATIVE MAORIS 1826 DUPERREY UNUSUAL ANTIQUE LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

Description: Striking and highly decorative unsual original colored lithographic ethnographic plate fetauring the portraits of 4 Native Maori of New Zealand.
 
Source: Louis-Isidore Duperrey. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère de S. E. M. le marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, et publié sous les auspices de Son Excellence M. le cte. de Chabrol, ministre, Ministre, Colonre, Colonre, Colonre de la Marine et des Marine et des Marine Ie, par L . I. Duperrey... capitaine de frégate, comandante de l'expédition. Histoire naturelle, zoologie. Atlas. Parigi: Arthus Bertrand, libraire-éditeur. 1826.

Date: 1826 ( undated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 49,8 x 33,1

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper.  Sheet with chains. Sheet old original colored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. 

Mapmakers: Louis-Isidore Duperrey (21 October 1786 – 25 August 1865) was a French naval officer and explorer. He joined the navy in 1802, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet aboard the Uranie (1817–1820). He commanded La Coquille on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825) with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second. René-Primevère Lesson also travelled on La Coquille as a naval doctor and naturalist. On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia. During the voyage the ship spend two weeks in the Bay of Islands in the north of New Zealand in 1824 and visited for ten days on l'île d'Oualan, now Kosrae, contemporary Federated States of Micronesia, that same year. On the return voyage to France the ship sailed through the Ellice Islands (now known as Tuvalu). He was the first to put together on a map the whole Gilbert Islands archipelago, which are now part of Kiribati (with the name given to it by Admiral Krusenstern). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861. He died in 1865.
 
Ambroise Tardieu (March 2, 1788 - January 17, 1841) was a prominent French cartographer and engraver operating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was member of the large and prolific Tardieu family, which, for over 200 years, produced multiple skilled and active engravers. Tardieu's work is known for its beauty and accuracy as well as for its depth of detail. Tardieu's most important work is his version of John Arrowsmith's large format map of the United States, published in 1806. Ambroise Tardieu is eclipsed in fame by his son, artist and medical scholar, August Ambroise Tardieu. Ambroise Tardieu is also frequently confused with Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu, another unrelated French map and print engraver active in the early 19th century.