Stock ID #196251 Palais du Gouverneur a Pondicherry. INDIA - PONDICHERRY, FRANÇOIS-EDMOND PÂRIS, SIGISMOND HIMELY, ARTIST, ENGRAVER.

Palais du Gouverneur a Pondicherry.

Paris. A. Bertrand. [ 1835]. Stock ID #196251

Aquatint 27.1 x 36 cm; 32.3 x 47.2 cm (sheet trimmed including platemark), margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured with soft crease and small split (not affecting the image) to an upper corner, the image a fine dark impression in very good condition.

Beautifully executed view of the Governor's Palace in the Pondicherry showing soldiers and officials trouping out, from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite (1830-32) by voyage artist François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893). The important French expedition encompassed India, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

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