“VILLAGE D"UMATA” (Île Gouaham)

Umatac, Guam Island, Marianas, USA.

From: "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie" sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi

pendant les Années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous le commandement de M. Dumont-d'Urville;

Atlas pittoresque plate 101.

First edition, published in Paris by Gide, 1842.

Imprimerie Thierry frères, Paris.

1842

After ERNEST GOUPIL

(Châteaudun, 1814 - Hobart, 1840)

French marine painter

Lithographed by Lassalle

French landscape subjets lithographer

DESCRIPTION:

Very interesting and detailed early view of Guam Island, Marianas, depicting locals in the Umatac's streets.

Taken after nature by Ernest Goupil during the famous South Pole and Oceania expedition executed by Jules Dumont d'Urville.

After exploring the southern regions Dumont D’Urville's ships sailed to the Pacific visiting many of the islands, Singapore, Batavia, and reached Hobart at the end of 1839.

After a short period of rest in Hobart the ships headed south again on January 1, 1840, this time reaching about 64°S and found themselves suddenly surrounded by icebergs.

On January 19, land was sighted, it was completely covered with snow so high it was impossible to see the summit.

D’Urville named the coast, Terre Adelie after his wife.

The expedition had established the approximate position of the magnetic pole and d’Urville felt that their task had been accomplished and left Antarctica and headed for New Zealand.

The maps and views were published in the official accounts of the voyage and are between the finest ever produced and intended to reflect France’s rightful place on the international stage.

Embossed blind stamp “Gide Editeur Paris” denoting that is from the original edition of “Voyage au Pole Sud”.

RARE

TECHNIQUE: Lithography

NOTE:

Lithograph printed on wove paper.

Editor dry stamp/cachet at botto margin.

First edition of the famous "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie" sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi

pendant les Années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous le commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville.

SIZE: 266mm(H) x 405mm(L) [image]

360mm(H) x 550mm(L) [sheet]

CONDITION:

In perfect condition.

Excellent impression.

Full editorial margins.

This lithograph was issued for the subscribers and never bounded in the volume.

BIOGRAPHY:

Ernest Goupil (Châteaudun, 1814 - Hobart, 1840)

Goupil was the official artist on Dumont d'Urville's expedition to the South Pole and Oceania

on the French Navy corvettes Astrolabe and Zelée.

After visiting Patagonia, the Antarctic, the South Pacific, the East Indies and northern Australia,

he died in Hobart on 1 January 1840 from dysentery contracted in Sumatra,

and was replaced as artist on the voyage by the expedition surgeon Louis Le Breton.