1750 Prevost & Nieuhoff Antique Print View of the Zoushan Archip. Zhejiang China Wales the great poet Vittorio Alfieri

the great poet Vittorio Alfieri was born

This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of Captain Samuel Wallis in his ship the HMS Dolphin being attacked by the Tahitians in Matavai Bay - with one tree hill to the right - in 1767 was engraved by Robert Benard and was published in the 1774 French edition of John Hawkesworths An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron

and Hungarian violinist Franz von Vecsey have lived here

His main interests were engraving portraits and producing illustrations for \\\"La Vie de Marianne\\\" by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747

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1750 Prevost & Nieuhoff Antique Print View of the Zoushan Archip. Zhejiang China Wales the great poet Vittorio AlfieriTitle: Montagne Des Cinq Tetes De Cheval Pres De Chau Cheu Fu Date: 1747 Condition : (A+) Fine Condition Ref: 34138 Size: 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm) Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique print a view of the Islands of Zoushan in the in north eastern Zhejiang Province of eastern China was engraved by Jakob van Schley after Johannes Nieuhoff and was published in Antoine Franois Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des