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C1828
Guerriers de L’Ile Ombai.
Artist:
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855)
From Louis Claude de S. de Freycinet’s, “Voyage autour du Monde… Historique”. Note the Historique which contained the topographical views volume was published in 1828. In 1817, he commanded the Uranie, in which Louis Isidore Duperrey, Jacques Arago, Adrien Taunay … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Guerriers de L’Ile Ombai.
Date:
C1828
Artist:
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855)
Engraver:
Choubard
Condition:
One small spot lower sheet well away from the engraved area. Otherwise in godd condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
320mm
x 230mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1828
Description:
From Louis Claude de S. de Freycinet’s, “Voyage autour du Monde… Historique”. Note the Historique which contained the topographical views volume was published in 1828. In 1817, he commanded the Uranie, in which Louis Isidore Duperrey, Jacques Arago, Adrien Taunay the Younger and others went to Rio de Janeiro, to take a series of pendulum measurements as well as a larger scheme for obtaining observations, not only in geography and ethnology, but in astronomy, terrestrial magnetism, and meteorology, and for the collection of specimens in natural history. RARE
