Plate from "Voyage Autour du Monde, principalement à la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich pendant les années 1826, 27, 28 et 1829".

 Captain Bernard Duhaut-Cilly was thirty-six years old when he set out for the Pacific at the helm of Le Héros for a long trading voyage ...more

Plate from "Campagne de Circumnavigation de la Frégate l'Artémise pendant les années 1837, 1838, 1839 et 1840" Paris, 1854.
Lithograph by C.P.T. Laplace from a watercolor by François Pâris

In 1786 Lapérouse's artist Duché de Vancy had observed Monterey's Carmel Mission in its infancy with only a few primitive buildings packed with Indian neophytes ...more

Hand-colored lithograph from Captain Dupetit-Thouars' "Atlas Pittoresque."

Until 1836, expeditionary artists had mostly sketched California's settlements, native Indians, fauna and flora, but never the Spaniards and their descendants, whose gracious and festive ...more