Jacques Arago, after; engraved by Lerouge and Forget after S. Leroy; Freycinet voyage
Sandwich Islands, Hawaii
circa 1822
Hand colored stipple engraving
12 x 19.5 in matted
This hand colored stipple engraving shows a Hawaiian officer of the king standing in full dress, wrapped in a red and yellow feather cloak with a crested feather helmet and holding a long spear. His skin carries tattooing on the chest, arm, and leg, and he wears a patterned malo at the waist, standing on a small ground of sand and grass. The plate is captioned below in French, Îles Sandwich, un officier du roi en grand costume, and numbered 85 at the upper right, with the engravers named in the lower margins. The sheet is hand colored with scattered foxing across the margins and is matted to 12 by 19.5 inches.
The image follows a drawing by Jacques Arago, who sailed as artist on the French voyage of the Uranie under Louis de Freycinet, which called at the Hawaiian Islands in 1819. It records an officer in the service of Liholiho, Kamehameha II, in the years just after the death of Kamehameha I. Engravings after Arago's drawings were issued in the published account of the voyage and in later French editions.
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Jacques Arago, after; engraved by Lerouge and Forget after S. Leroy; Freycinet voyage
Sandwich Islands, Hawaii
circa 1822
Hand colored stipple engraving
12 x 19.5 in matted
This hand colored stipple engraving shows a Hawaiian officer of the king standing in full dress, wrapped in a red and yellow feather cloak with a crested feather helmet and holding a long spear. His skin carries tattooing on the chest, arm, and leg, and he wears a patterned malo at the waist, standing on a small ground of sand and grass. The plate is captioned below in French, Îles Sandwich, un officier du roi en grand costume, and numbered 85 at the upper right, with the engravers named in the lower margins. The sheet is hand colored with scattered foxing across the margins and is matted to 12 by 19.5 inches.
The image follows a drawing by Jacques Arago, who sailed as artist on the French voyage of the Uranie under Louis de Freycinet, which called at the Hawaiian Islands in 1819. It records an officer in the service of Liholiho, Kamehameha II, in the years just after the death of Kamehameha I. Engravings after Arago's drawings were issued in the published account of the voyage and in later French editions.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
