Prints

Proof before letters.

View showing the Outer Harbour and the Praya Grande from the terrace of the convent of S. Francisco; no foreign ships, a few Chinese junks and sampans.

Engraved by the French artist engraver, Masquelier. This view of Macau was first published in "Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse" in 1797. Jean Francois de Galaup Comte de la Perouse embarked on a voyage of circumnavigation 1785-89. Here we see Macau Praya Grande drawn by Gaspard Duche de Vancy c1786 and engraved by Masquelier c1797.

A similar but smaller engraving by Lowry appears in the later English edition of the same book and was part of the Chater Collection.

Reference:

Wikipedia July 2012

Gaspard Duchè de Vancy was a French artist of the 18th century. He grew up in Vienna and exhibited not only at Paris's Salon of Young Artists (1781) but also at London's Royal Academy (1784). He was particularly active in portraiture, producing images of Stanislaus of Poland (1784), the secretary of the Kingdom of Naples (1784) and Marie Antoinette, and was also taken on as the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, on which he disappeared. His skull was thought to have been found off Vanikoro in April 2008, but DNA tests proved inconclusive.

Chater - Macao No. 3. This is the original engraving that Macao No 3 would be based on in a later English edition of the Voyages of La Perouse.