Naturels de l'australie pillant des debris de naufrage.

Paris: Amedée Bedelet, circa 1858.

Tinted lithograph, 165 x 233 mm.

West Australian aborigines

This image is based on a famous West Australian view by Louis de Sainson, which was published in the official account of Dumont d'Urville's three-year expedition in the Astrolabe. Sainson's image depicts a group of Aborigines of King George Sound, who spent a night on board the Astrolabe, trying on garments from the French crew and playing with the trinkets they had acquired on board. This version appeared in Bedelet's Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costumes des principaux Peuples de l'univers, a scarce French plate book of world costumes, derived from voyage accounts.

This image is based on a famous West Australian view by Louis de Sainson, which was published in the official account of Dumont d'Urville's three-year expedition in the Astrolabe. Sainson's image depicts a group of Aborigines of King George Sound, who spent a night on board the Astrolabe, trying on garments from the French crew and playing with the trinkets they had acquired on board. This version appeared in Bedelet's Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costumes des principaux Peuples de l'univers, a scarce French plate book of world costumes, derived from voyage accounts.

Colas, 2153; Lipperheide, 70.

Condition Report: Marginal tear with early sticky-tape repair leaving brown marks, not affecting image.

Ref: #3504694

Condition Report