CHORIS, Louis (1787-1828). Village of Tchoutchi. 1816. exotic ' on the front wrapper

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“Spanish and French Mapping of the Gulf of Mexico in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

a position contested by Northerners

a letter dated June 7

which included the cartographic results of his 1743 expedition

CHORIS, Louis (1787-1828). Village of Tchoutchi. 1816. exotic ' on the front wrapperLouis Choris Village of Tchoutchi Watercolor and pencil on paper 4 1 4" x 8 1 2" canvas, 15" x 19 1 2" framed Beautiful original watercolor and sketch of a village in Alaska. Louis Choris was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire, now Dnipro, Ukraine to German Russian parents on March 22, 1795. In 1816, he visited the Pacific and the west coast of North America on board the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik, serving as an artist with the Romanzoff