Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et La Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840
A French naval voyage account of the Astrolabe and Zélée expedition to the South Pole and Oceania, 1837 to 1840, edited by Dumont d'Urville and published in 1846 for the French royal government. The four plates are sepia and grey lithographic landscapes, printed rotated on the page, showing coastlines, distant mountains, palms and figures on shore. A designer might take their soft wash tonal range and layered foliage framing a distant horizon as a model for atmospheric landscape compositions.
