La Pérouse Alaska Tlingit Costume Engraving – French Expedition, 1797

Name: La Pérouse Alaska Tlingit Costume Engraving – French Expedition, 1797
Brand: La Perouse
SKU: BG-13384-21
Price: 890 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1797
Maker: La Perouse
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 42.5 × 56.8 cm (16.7 × 22.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with age-related toning, light foxing, and some faint staining near the margins. The sheet shows a central fold as issued and retains wide margins, contributing to a strong overall presentation.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Alaska
Reference: BG-13384-21

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The people of Port des Français in Alaska, an original copper engraving from the atlas to the Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, published in Paris in 1797. The plate is lettered "Costume des habitants du Port des Français, sur la côte du Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique", with the atlas plate number at the right margin.

A group of figures gathers under a rough wooden shelter of heavy planks. Four people sit on rocks at the center, among them a woman and a child, in robes of fur and skins; one man wears a tall conical hat. At the right a man in feathers sits with a pipe, another stands at the right edge in a fur robe, and at the left a standing figure holds an axe beside a bundle and a box. Dried fish hang from a pole at the upper right, and a pine bough hangs at the edge of the sheet.

Port des Français is Lituya Bay on the Alaskan coast, visited in 1786 on the expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. The drawing was made by Gaspard Duché de Vancy, one of the artists of the expedition.

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