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Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868 :Assassinat de Marion Dufrene, dessine d'apres Meryon et rep...
Date: 1772 - 1883
By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868; Focillon, Victor Louis, 1849-1918; Lemercier et Compagnie (Firm); Maison Charavay (Firm)
Reference: A-447-007
Description: Reconstruction of the death of Marion Du Fresne in the Bay of Islands in 1772. Shows part of a pa, with a store-house (pataka) and fence. A group of implements and European objects is in the foreground, including a three-cornered hat and a sword. A cabbage tree and flax plants can be seen in the foreground. Marion du Fresne is surrounded by a number of Maori, with others looking on from the pataka. He is distracted by one of the Maori men offering him what looks like a bird, while another Maori stands behind him, about to strike him with a club. A Maori woman is walking off to the left with another French sailor, and a Pakeha youth, probably one of the ship's crew, looks on in horror. State: Second state; appears in Aglaus Bouvenne, Notes et souvenirs sur Charles Meryon, son tombeau au cimetiere de Charenton Saint Maurice (Paris: Charavay Freres, 1883), facing p.12. This book was published in an edition of 335 copies Other Titles - Assassination of Marion Du Fresne, drawn after Meryon and rendered as an etching by V Focillon. Photogravure by Lemercier. Published by Charavay brothers, Paris. Printed by Lemercier and Co [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Meryon [in pencil]; Recto - bottom left - Navigateur né Saint-Malo 1729 [in pencil]; Recto - bottom centre - S29 [in pencil, crossed out] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching and photogravure, 128 x 195 mm (plate mark), on sheet of laid paper 250 x 325 mm