IMAGE
Hodges, William, 1744-1797 (after). Homme de l'ile de Paques; Chef de l'ile St Christine. [Page] 242. Lille, chez Castiaux, Libraire; imprimerie de Blocquel [between 1819 and 1837]
- Date
- 1819 - 1837
- By
- Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Castiaux, Jean-Baptiste, active 1820-1830s; Blocquel, Simon Francois, 1780-1863
- Reference
- A-293-005
- Description
Two head and shoulders portraits, brightly painted in orange and green. The portrait on the left shows a bearded man of Easter Island, with feather headdress, and large holes in the lobes of his ears.
The portrait on the right shows a chief of the island of Santa Christina, one of the Marquesas Islands. He wears a large feather headdress, with wound cloth and a medallion supporting it. He has large white ear-plates and a large pendant gorget hanging below his curled beard.
There is text beneath each portrait, the text under the left portrait relating when Easter Island was discovered. "The inhabitants of this island live in complete anarchy. They feed especially on potatoes, and because they have no fresh water they drink sea water". The text under the right portrait says that the island was visited by Captain Cook in 1774, and is 9 leagues in circumference. The breadfruit found there are the best in all the islands of the Southern Ocean. The name of the chief shown is Honoo.
See article 'Simon Blocquel, imagier et editeur lillois', about the printer Simon Blocquel, by Roger D J Collins, in "Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes", tome XLI, no 81 (December 1985), pp 235-240 (Copy in ATL files C.AA.001.006.004, 16 December 2008).
Other Titles - Man of Easter Island
Other Titles - Chief of the island of Santa Christina, one of the Marquesas islands in the Grand Ocean
Quantity: 2 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings, each around 185 x 125 mm, on sheet 220 x 370 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 2 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Portraits, Hand-coloured engravings, each around 185 x 125 mm, on sheet 220 x 370 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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