RAPA NUI EASTER ISLAND MOARI & BUILDINGS CHILE 1797 LA PÉROUSE ANTIQUE PLATE

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RAPA NUI EASTER ISLAND MOARI & BUILDINGS CHILE 1797 LA PÉROUSE ANTIQUE PLATE
RAPA NUI EASTER ISLAND MOARI & BUILDINGS CHILE 1797 LA PÉROUSE ANTIQUE PLATE
Description
Details Géometriques, des Monumens de l’île de Pâque.
Description:
Striking and highly decorative unusual large-format 1797
La Perouse's  copper engraved plate featuring several profiles, plans and views of buildings of the Eastern Island (Rapa Nui). The plate shows three Moari.
Jean-Francois de Galoup, Comte de La Perouse commanded a French scientific expedition to the Pacific in 1785-88. Recognized as one the foremost naval commanders and navigators in France, he was selected by King Louis XVI to complete Captain James Cook's exploration of the western Pacific. The British Admiralty provided scientific equipment to measure variations in magnetic compass readings and with the latest instruments for determining longitude. La Perouse explored the coasts of the Gulf of Alaska and northwestern North America in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. After leaving America his expedition continued on to Asia where he explored from Macao to Kamchatka and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. La Perouse was meticulous in sending copies of his extensive logs, maps and surveying information via other ships as well as overland. La Perouse's last contact was in the spring of 1788 with a British ship in Botany Bay, Australia. The expedition was never heard from again. Considered one of the greatest French voyages, the French Government decided to publish the story of the expedition when it became clear they had been lost. An English edition was published in London.
Date:
1797 ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm
56,7 x 43,1
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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Mapmaker:
Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (variant: comte de La Pérouse; 23 August 1741 – 1788?) was a French naval officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. Jean-François de Galaup was born near Albi, France. He comes from an Albigensian family whose nobility dates back to 1558. Lapérouse studied in a Jesuit college, and joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in Brest on 19 November 1756. In 1757 he was appointed to Célèbre and participated in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France. Lapérouse also took part in a second supply expedition in 1758 to Louisbourg, but as this was in the early years of the Seven Years' War, the fort was under siege and the expedition was forced to make a circuitous route around Newfoundland to avoid British patrols. In 1759, Lapérouse was wounded in the Battle of Quiberon Bay, where he was serving aboard Formidable. He was captured and briefly imprisoned before being paroled back to France; he was formally exchanged in December 1760. He participated in a 1762 attempt by the French to gain control of Newfoundland, escaping with the fleet when the British arrived in force to drive them out. At the outbreak of the Anglo-French War in 1778, Lapérouse was given command of the 32-gun frigate Amazone. On 7 October 1779, he captured the 20-gun HMS Ariel. Lapérouse was promoted to Captain on 4 April 1780, and was part of the Expédition particulière under Admiral Ternay, departing Brest on 2 May 1780. From October to November 1780, Amazone sailed from Rhode Island to Lorient, and from there to the Caribbean.  Lapérouse then transferred to Astrée. In the summer of 1781, he was offered command of the 50-gun Sagittaire, but as her crew was sick with scurvy, he requested permission to keep command of Astrée, and was appointed to lead a frigate division, along with Hermione, under Latouche-Tréville. Lapérouse escorted a convoy to the West Indies in December 1781, participated in the attack on St. Kitts in February 1782 and then fought in the defeat at the Battle of the Saintes against the squadron of Admiral Rodney. In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts (Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to release French prisoners held in England. The next year, his family finally consented to his marriage to Louise-Eléonore Broudou, a young creole of modest origins whom he had met on Île de France (present-day Mauritius) eight years earlier
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