Print of steel engraving titled „Femmes de Houka-Hiva“.

Drawn by Danvin.

Engraved by M. Lesuier.

From „L'univers pittoresque: histoire et description de tous les peuples“, Published by Firmin Didot Frères, Paris, 1837.

Nuku Hiva (sometimes erroneously spelled "Nukahiva") is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island.Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva. Robert Louis Stevenson's first landfall on his voyage on the Casco was at Hatihe'u, on the north side of Nuku Hiva, in 1888.

Approx. image size 13, 7 x 9, 2/21, 7 x 13, 6 cm. Condition: good.