Swarthmore College Framing Option:Black and Gold Frame La Perouse 1786

La Perouse 1786

No lesser authority than Alexander von Humboldt praised Lafon’s map

There is evidence of erasures he titled them in pencil with common names

but its title and content offer some clues

He accompanied the Kangxi Emperor on many official trips around the empire

Swarthmore College Framing Option:Black and Gold Frame La Perouse 1786Richard Rummell Swarthmore College Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed.