Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more The Uranie reached the Caroline Islands in March 1819. Freycinet and his crew were struck by the aimiable disposition of the Caroline Islanders, their colourful costumes and by their dances which Arago portrays in a fine series of drawings (lot 71).
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)

Tamor des Carolins, et femme du même archipel; Deux Carolins dansant; Deux Carolins dansant, and two proof engravings after Arago, one annotated, for plate 54 in the Atlas Historique; (Iles Carolines Danse des Naturels), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 56 in the Atlas Historique; Tamor des Carolines et sa femme vus à Tinian, and a brown wash engraver's drawing after Arago and a proof engraving for plate 57 in the Atlas Historique; Guham 1819. Danse des habitans des Carolines; (Two studies of dances of Caroline islanders), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 55 in the Atlas Historique; and Danse des Carolins

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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
Tamor des Carolins, et femme du même archipel; Deux Carolins dansant; Deux Carolins dansant, and two proof engravings after Arago, one annotated, for plate 54 in the Atlas Historique; (Iles Carolines Danse des Naturels), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 56 in the Atlas Historique; Tamor des Carolines et sa femme vus à Tinian, and a brown wash engraver's drawing after Arago and a proof engraving for plate 57 in the Atlas Historique; Guham 1819. Danse des habitans des Carolines; (Two studies of dances of Caroline islanders), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 55 in the Atlas Historique; and Danse des Carolins
six signed 'Js Arago (fecit)', two dated 1819, six inscribed as titles
five watercolour, three grey and brown wash, one pen and ink on paper, watermarks VDL and VAN DER LEY
11 5/8 x 14½in. (29.4 x 36.8cm.) and smaller
14
Exhibited
Paris, 1962, no.60 (Tamor des Carolines, et femme du même archipel).
Engraved
Atlas Historique, pls. 53-57.
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