Tahiti. Un Toupapau. Divinities de Taiti. Traditions & Superstitions c1834

by D'Urville, Dumont

A Place for Dying. Divinities for Worship. Antique Print of Tahitian traditions and beliefs.

Original antique print from Voyages Pittoresque Autour de Monde  (Picturesque Voyages around the World), which Dumont d'Urville compiled from the voyages and discoveries of Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver, D'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders, Krunsenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, Dumont d'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, B.Morrel, etc., published under the direction of d'Urville in Paris, between 1834 and 1835.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), was a French naval officer who captained an exploartion vessel at the beginning of the nineteenth century. D'Urville combined engravings from the drawings by his official expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887), with sketches and engravings from previous voyages (notably those from James Cook's third voyage between 1776 and 1780). 

Most of the engravings were printed two on a page, one above the other. The page measures 265 x 175mm (approximately 10.5 x 7 inches). This page is black and white, as published.