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GODEFROY ENGELMANN, EMILE-CHARLES WATTIER, ALEXANDER POSTELS. View of Lukunor Island, Lower Caroline Islands, 19th century. Creators: Alexander Postels, Godefroy Engelmann, Emile-Charles Wattier.

GODEFROY ENGELMANN, EMILE-CHARLES WATTIER and ALEXANDER POSTELS. View of Lukunor Island, Lower Caroline Islands, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I and carried out in 1826-29 under the command of Captain Fedor Litke (the Russian version of the name of Count Friedrich Lu¨tke, a Baltic German). The expedition began in Kronstadt (the main imperial Russian naval base near Saint Petersburg where Russian circumnavigations typically began and ended); it then traveled around Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. This voyage was one of many Russian scientific naval surveys in the first part of the 19th century.

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Author:

GODEFROY ENGELMANN (1788-1839) • EMILE-CHARLES WATTIER • ALEXANDER POSTELS

Title:

View of Lukunor Island, Lower Caroline Islands, 19th century. Creators: Alexander Postels, Godefroy Engelmann, Emile-Charles Wattier.

Caption:

View of Lukunor Island, Lower Caroline Islands, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I and carried out in 1826-29 under the command of Captain Fedor Litke (the Russian version of the name of Count Friedrich Lu¨tke, a Baltic German). The expedition began in Kronstadt (the main imperial Russian naval base near Saint Petersburg where Russian circumnavigations typically began and ended); it then traveled around Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. This voyage was one of many Russian scientific naval surveys in the first part of the 19th century.

Personalities:

GOTTFRIED • GODEFROY (fl.1482) • ENGELMANN

Technique/material:

LITHOGRAPH

Credit:

Album / Heritage Art/Heritage Images

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4960 x 3752 px | 53.2 MB

Print size:

42.0 x 31.8 cm | 16.5 x 12.5 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

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