Print of steel engraving titled „Fai-toka ou Tombeau du Toui-tonga“.

Drawn by Danvin.

Engraved by DEsaul.

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

Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands of which 36 islands are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population 103,000 people of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.Tonga stretches over about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line – about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii. It is surrounded by Fiji and Wallis and Futuna (France) to the northwest, Samoa to the northeast, Niue to the east, Kermadec (part of New Zealand) to the southwest, and New Caledonia (France) and Vanuatu to the farther west.

Approx. image size 14, 4 x 9, 3/22, 1 x 14, 1 cm. Condition: medium.