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Date: 1822 - 1825

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851; Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854; Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841; Fox, Charles Arundel Overbury (Dr), 1886?-1971

Reference: C-082-001/130

Description: Copies made by Antoine Chazal of the original drawings by LeJeune; also several original drawings by Chazal, one by Duperrey and three by Blosseville. Engravings and aquatints, hand-coloured by Chazal and uncoloured proofs by Tardieu after the drawings of Chazal, prepared for publication in Louis Isidore Duperrey - Voyage autour du monde ...sur la corvette de sa Majeste La Coquille ... 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 ... Paris, 1826. Atlas historique. Plates 1-60. Also includes title page and type part-cover with decorative border and handwritten label. Contents include portraits of Chileans and Peruvians, portraits and landscapes of New Zealand, the Society Islands including Tahiti, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), New Guinea, Caroline Islands and St Helena. See also: Sharp, C. A. Duperrey's visit to New Zealand in 1824. (Wellington, 1971) Physical Description: Watercolours, engravings (hand-coloured), aquatints various sizes Provenance: Dr Fox Collection

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-090

Description: Uncoloured proof engraving by Tardieu for Duperrey, L I Voyage autour du monde ... Paris 1826 Plate 41. Based on Chazal's watercolour (C-082-089) in its turn based on a drawing or watercolour by Jules Louis Lejeune. Previously attributed to Duperrey because of the pencil inscription of his name on the lower left of the watercolour original of this print (C-082-089). Other Titles - New Zealand. House of the natives. Plan of this house. Tomb. Idol. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 327 x 237 mm

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-089

Description: Original for engraving by Tardieu (C-082-085) for Duperrey, L I Voyage autour du monde ... Paris 1826 Plate 41. See also entry under Lejeune for non-New Zealand material in this collection. See also Sharp, C A Duperrey's visit to New Zealand in 1824 Wellington, 1971 Previously attributed to Duperrey because of the pencil inscription of his name on the lower left of the image. However the image is also signed A. Chazal and the reference to Duperrey may have been added by a later hand.. Other Titles - New Zealand. House of the natives. Plan of this house. Tomb. Idol. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. Chazal [in faint pencil below the left leg of the lower right-hand carved figure]. Duperrey [inscribed in pencil, lower left]. No 41 [in pencil upper right]. Noule Zealande [in ink above image] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 197 x 126 mm

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854

Reference: C-082-087

Description: 28 artifacts brought back to France by Duperrey from the Bay of Islands in 1824. They include greenstone, bone and wooden carved weapons, implements and musical instruments. There are two axes, a patu and three mere (clubs), a fork made from a bone of Korokoro, Chief of Kahouwera Pa, a feeding tube, four flutes, a comb, four fish-hooks, an oar, two carved waka huia, a kumete or bowl, a bailer, a tiki, earrings, other small adornments, and a carved stick. Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature: A. Chazal Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 370 x 250 mm

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854

Reference: C-082-085

Description: A Maori greenstone axe with carved wooden handle, a greenstone patu, a shark's tooth earring, a carved wooden flute and a large bone and flax-bound fish-hook. The text in French beside the earring continues 'et a laquelle ils attachent les idees les plus superstitieuses, les femmes l'en servent pour se dechirer le visage dans leurs ceremonies de deuil" (Translation: and to which they attach the most superstitious ideas, the women use them to cut their faces in their mourning ceremonies). The text alongside the flute marks "A. Ouverture. B. tres petit trou" (Translation: A. aperture. B. Very small hole [at the end of the flute]). Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Toki (axe). Patu patu. Marine fish tooth which the New Zealanders wear hanging from their ear. Native fish hook. Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm