M. Dumont D’Urville. Procession of the Chariot Juggernaut. 1834.

Print of steel engraving titled „Procession du Char a Jaggernaut“.

Author Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville.

Engraved by Beyer.

From „Voyage pittoresque Autour du Monde, resume general des voyages decouvertes, public sous la direction de M. Dumont D’Urville, a Paris, chez L. Tenre, Libraire-Editeur, 1834.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as D'Urville Island.

A juggernaut in current English usage, is a literal or metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. This usage originated in the mid-nineteenth century as an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars of Jagannath Temple in Puri, which apocryphally were reputed to crush devotees under their wheels.

Approx. image size 12, 5 x 9, 1/17, 4 x 12, 9 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.