Papua New Guinea View of Manavai – Antique Engraving, 1837

Description

Papua New Guinea View of Manavai Antique Engraving

An original nineteenth-century engraving entitled “Vue de Manavai”, published circa 1837 and devoted to Papua New Guinea.

The composition presents a traditional village set within luxuriant tropical vegetation. Thatched buildings, palm trees and several inhabitants animate this finely detailed ethnographic landscape.

The plate bears the printed heading “PAPOUASIE”, the title “Vue de Manavai” and plate number 227.

Such engravings contributed to the European visual record of Oceania during the great nineteenth-century voyages of exploration and are now collected for their historical, ethnographic and decorative interest.

Details

• Title: Vue de Manavai

• Region: Papua New Guinea, Oceania

• Date: circa 1837

• Technique: engraving on paper

• Plate number: 227

• Sheet dimensions: 19 × 12.3 cm

• Image dimensions: 14.3 × 9 cm

• Unframed