After Alphonse Pellion
Paris
1825
Stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand
Image 9 1/2 x 13 inches (24.1 x 33 cm), mat 17 1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Provenance: Sydney trade
Three bust portraits are set in a row across the sheet, each numbered beneath and each isolated against the blank paper without background or setting. At the left is a Hawaiian man in a dark blue European coat with a white collar, his hair cropped and a thin beard following the line of the jaw, and at the center an elderly European with white hair and a heavy brown coat worn open over a white shirt. At the right is a Hawaiian man in a blue coat over a striped yellow waistcoat with a large white cravat at the throat, his hair dressed high and side whiskers carried down the cheek.
The sitters are identified in the lettering as Kraimokou, the chief minister, John Young, and the royal pilot. Kraimokou is Kalanimoku, prime minister under Kamehameha I and the chief baptized aboard the same vessel in August 1819, while John Young was the English seaman who settled in the islands in 1790, became an advisor to Kamehameha and later governor of Hawaiʻi Island. The plate was drawn by Alphonse Pellion on Louis de Freycinet's expedition and published in the atlas to Voyage autour du monde, Paris, 1825.
Alphonse Pellion was a French naval officer who sailed as a draughtsman on the Freycinet expedition of 1817 to 1820 aboard l'Uranie and la Physicienne. The corvette reached the Hawaiian Islands in August 1819, three months after the death of Kamehameha I, and remained for several weeks while the succession and the overturning of the kapu system were underway. Pellion and Jacques Arago made the drawings during that stay, and the plates engraved from them form the principal French visual record of the islands at that moment. His portrait subjects were drawn from life rather than composed from description.
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After Alphonse Pellion
Paris
1825
Stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand
Image 9 1/2 x 13 inches (24.1 x 33 cm), mat 17 1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Provenance: Sydney trade
Three bust portraits are set in a row across the sheet, each numbered beneath and each isolated against the blank paper without background or setting. At the left is a Hawaiian man in a dark blue European coat with a white collar, his hair cropped and a thin beard following the line of the jaw, and at the center an elderly European with white hair and a heavy brown coat worn open over a white shirt. At the right is a Hawaiian man in a blue coat over a striped yellow waistcoat with a large white cravat at the throat, his hair dressed high and side whiskers carried down the cheek.
The sitters are identified in the lettering as Kraimokou, the chief minister, John Young, and the royal pilot. Kraimokou is Kalanimoku, prime minister under Kamehameha I and the chief baptized aboard the same vessel in August 1819, while John Young was the English seaman who settled in the islands in 1790, became an advisor to Kamehameha and later governor of Hawaiʻi Island. The plate was drawn by Alphonse Pellion on Louis de Freycinet's expedition and published in the atlas to Voyage autour du monde, Paris, 1825.
Alphonse Pellion was a French naval officer who sailed as a draughtsman on the Freycinet expedition of 1817 to 1820 aboard l'Uranie and la Physicienne. The corvette reached the Hawaiian Islands in August 1819, three months after the death of Kamehameha I, and remained for several weeks while the succession and the overturning of the kapu system were underway. Pellion and Jacques Arago made the drawings during that stay, and the plates engraved from them form the principal French visual record of the islands at that moment. His portrait subjects were drawn from life rather than composed from description.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
