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845924
  • Title
    Voyage of the French Corvette "L'Heroine" during the years 1844-49 / Felix Marant-Boissauver [i.e. Félix Marant-Boissauveur]
  • Creator
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1844-1849
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    845924
  • Issue Copy
    Copy print : DL PXX 32-34
    Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  • Physical Description
    3 volumes (80 pencil drawings, 52 watercolours, 65 newscuttings, 30 lithographs, 45 engravings, 3 oils and 1 ink drawing) - various sizes
  • Scope and Content
    The volumes include views and plant studies in the Caribbean, Central and South America, portraits of Creoles, French life in the Caribbean, Toltec ruins in Mexico, views in the Pacific Islands and portraits of Pacific Islanders.

    DL PXX 32
    Original drawings of the Scenery, Natives and other interesting items connected with The Cruise in South American Waters, ca. 1837-1850

    DL PXX 33
    Engravings illustrating the voyage to the South Seas, ca. 1837

    DL PXX 34
    Original drawings of the Scenery, Natives and other interesting items connected with The Cruise in South American Waters, ca. 1837-1850
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    Keyword subjects:
    Pacific Islands
    Central America
    Caribbean Islands
    L'Heroine, French Corvette

    Colour Transparency held : PXX 33 folio 13.
    Contents lists filed with collection.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Two items are signed, fifty dated and two hundred and fourteen titled.
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