IMAGE
Various artists :Danzatore e Danzatrice all'Isola Avai. [1838-1843].
- Date
- 1779 - 1817 - 1835 - 1820 - 1843
- By
- Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Webber, John, 1751-1793
- Reference
- A-318-025
- Description
Shows a man dancing in the centre, with a circular shield. At the right a woman kneels on the ground with her arms raised obliquely in a sweeping motion. At the left, a man and child watch.
Plate 120 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Langlois engraved the French version, but the engraver of the Italian edition is not given (it may also have been Langlois).
Webber was an artist on Captain Cook's third voyage in to Hawaii in about 1779, and Arago was an artist on Freycinet's voyage, 1817-1820.
Other Titles - Iles Haouai - Danseur et danseuse
Other Titles - Man and woman dancers on Hawaii
Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36).
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 120
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book..
Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843]. / Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book., Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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