Hawaiian Islands / Kailua Bay
Island of Hawai'i, 1819; Paris, 1826
Copper plate engraving, archival koa frame
Frame: 23 × 29¼ in. (58.4 × 74.3 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Kahala, HI; Lahaina Print Sellers, Maui, HI
This copper plate engraved chart of Kailua Bay on the Island of Hawai'i was published in Paris in 1826 as part of the cartographic documentation from Louis de Freycinet's voyage aboard L'Uranie, surveyed in 1819. Kailua Bay held particular importance in the early Hawaiian Kingdom as a chiefly and political center closely associated with Kamehameha I, and its precise charting by the Freycinet expedition reflects the intersection of French scientific ambition and Hawaiian political geography at a pivotal moment in the kingdom's history.
The chart approaches the bay as a navigational and geographic subject, distinguished from the ethnographic figure studies and landscape views that characterize much of the Freycinet voyage imagery. Its placement in an archival koa frame connects the printed European survey to the Hawaiian material world. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Print Sellers provenance adds a documented local collecting history to a chart whose subject remains central to the history of the island.
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Hawaiian Islands / Kailua Bay
Island of Hawai'i, 1819; Paris, 1826
Copper plate engraving, archival koa frame
Frame: 23 × 29¼ in. (58.4 × 74.3 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Kahala, HI; Lahaina Print Sellers, Maui, HI
This copper plate engraved chart of Kailua Bay on the Island of Hawai'i was published in Paris in 1826 as part of the cartographic documentation from Louis de Freycinet's voyage aboard L'Uranie, surveyed in 1819. Kailua Bay held particular importance in the early Hawaiian Kingdom as a chiefly and political center closely associated with Kamehameha I, and its precise charting by the Freycinet expedition reflects the intersection of French scientific ambition and Hawaiian political geography at a pivotal moment in the kingdom's history.
The chart approaches the bay as a navigational and geographic subject, distinguished from the ethnographic figure studies and landscape views that characterize much of the Freycinet voyage imagery. Its placement in an archival koa frame connects the printed European survey to the Hawaiian material world. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Print Sellers provenance adds a documented local collecting history to a chart whose subject remains central to the history of the island.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
