Perouse Collection

Jean Francois Galup De La Perouse

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Double canoe of New Caledonia. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Maori girl with feather in her hair and long earrings
Girl of New Zealand. Maori girl with feather in her hair and long earrings. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Maori man of New Zealand. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

View of Puerto de Cavite, Spanish port in
Tagalog people on a boat in front of Puerto de Cavite, Spanish port in Manila Bay, Philippines. Copied from a painting by Duche de Vancy and J.M. Moreau le Jeune in La Perouse

Costumes of the people of Concepcion, Chile, with women in shawls, full skirts with many petticoats, copied from La Perouse

LA Perouse Anchor Found
The French admiral Dumont d Urville sails to Polynesia in the Astrolabe in search of remains of La Perouse : he dredges up an anchor of the explorers ship off Vanikoro. Date: 1826 - 1829

LA Perouse (Woolnoth)
Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de LA PEROUSE French navigator Date: 1741 - 1788?

Brazil Santa Catarina 1
Companions of La Perouse make friends with the natives. Date: 1785

French Anarchist - possibly Zo d Axa or Han Ryner
A well-known French Anarchist - caricature by Phil May. This is likely to be either Alphonse Gallaud de la Perouse (18641930) (better known as Zo d Axa, an adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist)

Dumont D urville - 2
JULES SEBASTIEN CESAR DUMONT D URVILLE - French naval commander and explorer, commanded Astrolabe in search for La Perouse, active in the Pacific. Date: 1790 - 1842

LA Perouse / East Tartary
French navigator La Perouse meets inhabitants of Eastern Tartary

Boat of Tartary 1787
Boat of Tchoka, Tartary, observed by La Perouse in the course of his famous voyage

Hawaii / Mowee 1785
Hawaii (Sandwich Islands): La Perouse anchored at Mowee

Louis XVI & LA Perouse
Louis XVI discusses his plans with navigator La Perouse, who will make important discoveries in the southern hemisphere (we have his book)

Russia / La Perouse / Langle
La Perouse on the Tartar coast: Langle Bay

Pacific Vanikoro
also known as La Perouse island, or Santa Cruz : located in the bay of Manevai

Perouse / Easter Island
While friendly native girls amuse La Perouses crew, their companions take their hats and handkerchiefs

Perouse / Massacred / Easter
De Langle and other members of La Perouses voyage are massacred at Maouna, Samoan Islands

Dog Sleigh Kamchatka
A dog-team draw a sledge in Kamchatka, Russia, observed by the French Traveller La Perouse during his journey round the world

LA Perouse at Easter I
Officers from the expedition measure the statues while the islanders pilfer their belongings

Dumont Durville at Tonga
French admiral Dumont d Urville sails to Polynesia in the Astrolabe in search of remains of La Perouse : he visits Tonga and is received by the islands rulers

J-F De Galaup, Laperouse
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE GALAUP, Comte de LA PEROUSE French navigator in Pacific &c, apparently murdered by natives of Santa Cruz Islands

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