Louis Choris, after; lithographed by Franquelin; printed by Langlumé
Sandwich Islands, Hawaii
1816, published 1822
Hand colored lithograph
13.5 x 17 in matted
This hand colored lithograph shows three Hawaiian men dancing on open ground, each wearing a white sash at the waist and anklets, two holding round patterned shields. Behind them a ring of seated spectators looks on, several with gourd drums, before a thatched dwelling and a stand of coconut palms. The scene is titled below in French, Danse des hommes dans les îles Sandwich, and numbered XII at the upper right, with the lithographers named in the lower margins. The sheet is hand colored with scattered foxing and is matted to 13.5 by 17 inches.
The image follows a drawing by Louis Choris, who sailed as artist on the Russian voyage of the Rurik under Otto von Kotzebue and visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1816. Choris published his Pacific drawings in Paris in the 1820s, where they were put on stone by other hands, here by Franquelin and printed by Langlumé. His Hawaiian plates are among the earliest widely circulated European images of island life after the voyages of Cook.
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Louis Choris, after; lithographed by Franquelin; printed by Langlumé
Sandwich Islands, Hawaii
1816, published 1822
Hand colored lithograph
13.5 x 17 in matted
This hand colored lithograph shows three Hawaiian men dancing on open ground, each wearing a white sash at the waist and anklets, two holding round patterned shields. Behind them a ring of seated spectators looks on, several with gourd drums, before a thatched dwelling and a stand of coconut palms. The scene is titled below in French, Danse des hommes dans les îles Sandwich, and numbered XII at the upper right, with the lithographers named in the lower margins. The sheet is hand colored with scattered foxing and is matted to 13.5 by 17 inches.
The image follows a drawing by Louis Choris, who sailed as artist on the Russian voyage of the Rurik under Otto von Kotzebue and visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1816. Choris published his Pacific drawings in Paris in the 1820s, where they were put on stone by other hands, here by Franquelin and printed by Langlumé. His Hawaiian plates are among the earliest widely circulated European images of island life after the voyages of Cook.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
