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Louis Le Breton 'Fond De La Baie
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Lot Description
Louis Le Breton 'Fond De La Baie, Sarah's Bosom (Iles Auckland)' (Port Ross, Auckland Isles) Lithograph c. 1846. Atlas Pittoresque Plate 175. Framed under glass, 190 x 345mm. Est. $400-600. "Le Breton was a surgeon, and later official artist, on board the Astrolabe, which completed a scientific expedition in the southern hemisphere between 1837 and 1840. He produced more than 170 sketches, providing some of the earliest known pictorial records of the Auckland Islands. Many of these were reproduced as lithographs to accompany D’Urville’s account of the voyage"