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Condición: Sehr gut. Warou, Seram Island, Maluku Islands, anno 1846, etching, -ORIGINAL---- Size of the printed area: 20 x 27 cm., clean, wide margins The "Mosque of the village of Warou (Ceram Island)" (original French title: Mosquée du village de Warou (Île Céram)) is a famous artwork by the French expedition artist Louis Le Breton. It is plate 128 (Planche 128) of the Atlas pittoresque, the visual atlas from the major French scientific expedition "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie" (1837-1840), led by Jules Dumont d'Urville. Artist: Louis Le Breton (1818-1866), a ship's surgeon who became the official expedition artist after the death of the original painter. Lithographer: Pharamond Blanchard. Publication Date: 1846 in Paris by the publisher Gide. Subject: A rare historical view of the traditional mosque and the village of Warou, located on Seram Island (historically spelled Céram, currently part of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia). This lithograph is highly valued by historians and anthropologists as it documents traditional Islamic architecture and local lifestyle in this region of Indonesia during the early 19th century.…