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C1824
Timor. Cavalier Malais.
Rare engraving of a mounted Timorese rider, issued in only the second revised edition of Freycinet’s, Voyage de Decouvertes Aux Terres Australes Historique. The text was prepared by Louis de Freycinet after his return from his own expedition to the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Timor. Cavalier Malais.
Date:
C1824
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Stipple engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
310mm
x 220mm
Paper Size:
363mm
x 278mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1824
Description:
Rare engraving of a mounted Timorese rider, issued in only the second revised edition of Freycinet’s, Voyage de Decouvertes Aux Terres Australes Historique.
The text was prepared by Louis de Freycinet after his return from his own expedition to the Pacific between 1817 and 1820. This revised 1824 second edition of the “Partie Historique” contains several significant changes and additions compared to the first edition. The maps and charts from the initial edition’s atlas, which carried the nationalistic and ambitious name of “Terre Napoléon” and included imperial French names for many coastal areas, were either omitted or extensively altered in the second edition atlas. This updated atlas also introduces twenty-five new plates, with many of them being coloured. Freycinet’s revisions in the second edition mirror the political reality of the era and ultimately acknowledge the rightful claims of English navigators, particularly Matthew Flinders, to the discovery of the Australian coast” (Wantrup 82).
From: Peron, F., Lesueur. C., and Petit,N. ; Voyage de Decouvertes Aux Terres Australes Historique.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: F979.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 :: 82.
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: F979.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 :: 82.
Nicholas-Martin Petit (1777 - 1804)
French artist on the famous Baudin voyage of exploration and discovery. He had signed on to the voyage as a gunner's mate but was appointed as an artist, after the three appointed artists left the expedition at Mauritius.Petit had studied in David' studio at the Louvre and was to concentrate, 'all that which may be of interest for the history of man'. The results of his observations and drawings are series of 'impressive portraits of Tasmanian Aborigines' in the official published accounts of the voyage. This voyage charted the Australian coast and visited Sydney in 1803.
