New Zealand Seen by the French 1769-1846 - La Nouvelle-Zelande vue par les Francais

Despite its staccato beginnings - 1769, 1772, 1793 - despite the obscurity which has surrounded many individual careers and personalities, and despite the variable quality of the images it produced, there is an identifiable French pictorial tradition running through a large part of New Zealand's European history, sometimes paralleling but often complementing the dominant British one. It is one objective of the exhibition which this book accompanied, to demonstrate its coherence and its significance...