1750 Prevost & Nieuhoff Antique Print View of the Zoushan Archip. Zhejiang China Wales This fine original copper-plate engraved

1750 Prevost & Nieuhoff Antique Print View of the Zoushan Archip. Zhejiang China Wales This fine original copper plate engraved 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 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