Engaging Australian Aboriginal portraits and camp scene in the region of Camden, NSW, from the official voyage account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who toured the South Pacific between 1824 and 1826.

Engaging Australian Aboriginal portraits and camp scene in the region of Camden, NSW, from the official voyage account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville, who toured the South Pacific between 1824 and 1826.

Edmond de la Touanne, whose work formed the basis of these fine lithographic portraits, was a friend and protégé of de Bougainville and sailed on his expedition as lieutenant de vaisseau. Because of the haste with which the expedition was manned, no official artist was sent; as Bougainville remarks, no pictorial record of the expedition would have survived but for de la Touanne's sketches, which were published as lithographs in the official record of the expedition and in de la Touanne's own album.