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C1828
Tamor des Iles Carolines et sa Femme, vus sur L’Ile Tinian.
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:
Tamor des Iles Carolines et sa Femme, vus sur L’Ile Tinian.
Date:
C1828
Artist:
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855)
Condition:
Two minor spots lower right below image. Three small small spots outer right margin outside plate area. Repaired 35mm marginal tear from lower sheet edge, well away from lettering. Otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Stipple engraving.
Image Size:
325mm
x 225mm
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. The voyage visited Australia, Mariana Islands, Hawaii, Timor, Guam, New Zealand. RARE
