Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique manufactured by Joseph Dufour et cie 1804-05 after a design by Jean-Gabriel Charvet.

Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2000. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 48, illustrated.

“In 1983 the National Gallery of Australia acquired the panoramic wallpaper Les sauvages de la mer Pacifique. Depicting a compilation of nineteenth-century French and English voyages of discovery in the Pacific, and including Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia, it was the first example of the wallpaper to find a home in Australia. Produced in France by Joseph Dufour et cie from a design by Jean-Gabriel Charvet, it represents not only a visual treat, but also a glimpse of the New World from a nineteenth-century perspective and a window into the technology of its era … A combination of woodblock, stencils and handpainting, it was created in twenty strips that could be hung in different combinations to create different widths …” — Foreword.