Antique Print of Ambon Island by Dumont d'Urville (1833)

Description: Antique print titled 'Vue Prise a Amboine dans le ravin de Batou-Meral (Moluques)'. View of Ambon Island, part of the Maluku islands, Indonesia. This print originates from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829' by Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville.

Artists and Engravers: Published by J. Tastu. Dumont was a French explorer and naval officer. For thirty-eight months he explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Several seaweeds, plants, and shrubs are named after him, as well as D'Urville Island.