Hawaiian Islands / Maui
Paris, 1822
Stipple engraving, colored on the plate
Mat: 19½ × 23½ in. (49.5 × 59.7 cm); image: 11 × 15 in. (27.9 × 38.1 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, HI; Lahaina Printsellers
This stipple engraving, titled in French Femme de l'Île Mowi dansant, depicts a woman from Maui dancing and was published in Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde in Paris in 1822. The subject belongs to the French expedition's sustained documentation of Hawaiian performance, dress, and social life during its passage through the islands in 1819, and the plate was produced from drawings made on the voyage. Stipple engraving, with its capacity for graduated tone and softer modeling than line engraving, suited the rendering of the figure and the textures of her costume with a warmth that distinguishes Freycinet voyage imagery from the harder precision of Cook voyage plates.
Color applied during printing further develops the figure, giving the work a finished quality rare in scientific voyage publication. The original artwork from which this engraving was derived is held in the Polynesian collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, placing this print in direct relation to the broader Hawaiian and Pacific holdings of the gallery. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Printsellers provenance adds local collecting history to a plate of both documentary and visual significance.
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Hawaiian Islands / Maui
Paris, 1822
Stipple engraving, colored on the plate
Mat: 19½ × 23½ in. (49.5 × 59.7 cm); image: 11 × 15 in. (27.9 × 38.1 cm)
Provenance: Randy Nagatani, Honolulu, HI; Lahaina Printsellers
This stipple engraving, titled in French Femme de l'Île Mowi dansant, depicts a woman from Maui dancing and was published in Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde in Paris in 1822. The subject belongs to the French expedition's sustained documentation of Hawaiian performance, dress, and social life during its passage through the islands in 1819, and the plate was produced from drawings made on the voyage. Stipple engraving, with its capacity for graduated tone and softer modeling than line engraving, suited the rendering of the figure and the textures of her costume with a warmth that distinguishes Freycinet voyage imagery from the harder precision of Cook voyage plates.
Color applied during printing further develops the figure, giving the work a finished quality rare in scientific voyage publication. The original artwork from which this engraving was derived is held in the Polynesian collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, placing this print in direct relation to the broader Hawaiian and Pacific holdings of the gallery. The Randy Nagatani and Lahaina Printsellers provenance adds local collecting history to a plate of both documentary and visual significance.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
