Vanikoro, Solomon Islands
1833
Colored lithograph
Mat 24 × 20 in (61 × 50.8 cm); image 18 × 13 in (45.7 × 33 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, HI
J. Tatsu, editor
Plate no. 178 from Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe historique, Paris
This 1833 colored lithograph records artefacts from Santa Cruz in the Solomon Islands, published in connection with the voyage of the French corvette l’Astrolabe. Expedition plates of this kind were part of the nineteenth-century visual documentation of the Pacific, presenting objects, ornaments, tools, and cultural materials to European readers through carefully arranged comparative images. The Vanikoro association also places the work within a wider history of Pacific exploration, island encounter, and the early printed record of Oceanic material culture.
The plate is composed with the ordered clarity typical of scientific and expedition publications, isolating each artefact so that its form and surface detail can be studied. The lithographic process allowed these objects to be reproduced with a degree of precision while preserving the visual character of the original drawings. As a historical work on paper, it belongs naturally within collections focused on Solomon Islands art, Santa Cruz material culture, Pacific exploration, and early nineteenth-century printed documentation.
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Vanikoro, Solomon Islands
1833
Colored lithograph
Mat 24 × 20 in (61 × 50.8 cm); image 18 × 13 in (45.7 × 33 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, HI
J. Tatsu, editor
Plate no. 178 from Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe historique, Paris
This 1833 colored lithograph records artefacts from Santa Cruz in the Solomon Islands, published in connection with the voyage of the French corvette l’Astrolabe. Expedition plates of this kind were part of the nineteenth-century visual documentation of the Pacific, presenting objects, ornaments, tools, and cultural materials to European readers through carefully arranged comparative images. The Vanikoro association also places the work within a wider history of Pacific exploration, island encounter, and the early printed record of Oceanic material culture.
The plate is composed with the ordered clarity typical of scientific and expedition publications, isolating each artefact so that its form and surface detail can be studied. The lithographic process allowed these objects to be reproduced with a degree of precision while preserving the visual character of the original drawings. As a historical work on paper, it belongs naturally within collections focused on Solomon Islands art, Santa Cruz material culture, Pacific exploration, and early nineteenth-century printed documentation.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
