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Belin, fl 1854 :Oceanie. Dessine et lith. par Belin. Publie avec texte par le Journal des Meres et des Enfants [...], 9 rue des Saints-Peres. Imp. Lemercier, Paris, Journal des meres et des enfants, [1 April 1854]
- Date
- 1854
- By
- Belin, active 1854; Lemercier et Compagnie (Firm)
- Reference
- B-182-018
- Description
A page of eleven vignette panels with scenes from eleven different Pacific countries:
Iles Philippines - Port de Manille
Java. Plantations de Poivriers - Muscadiers et Gerofliers (Pepper plants, nutmeg and cloves)
Borneo - Orang-Outang - Fleur du Rafflesia - Indigene Malais (Orang-utan, Rafflesia flower, Malay native)
Iles Sandwich - case du roi a Honolulu (Hawaii - King's house at Honolulu)
Iles Carolines - peche des eponges, du tripang et des tortues a ecaille (Caroline Islands - fishing for sponges, sea cucumbers and tortoises)
Australie - colons et chercheurs d'or - Arbres casuarines et eucaliptes - Menure, cygne noir (Australia - colonists and gold prospectors, casuarina trees and eucalyptus gums, lyre bird and black swan)
Nouvelle Guinee - etablissement de baleiniers (New Guinea - whaling settlement)
Iles Viti - Navire venant charger des bois de Teck et de Sandal (Fiji? Ship about to be loaded with teak and sandalwood)
O Taiti - arbre a pain - on embarque des perles et de la nacre (Tahiti - breadfruit - loading boats with pearls and mother of pearl)
Iles Marquises - etablissement [...] (Marquesas - settlement ...?)
Nouvelle Zelande - indigenes travaiilant le phormium tenax (New Zealand - natives working with flax)
Date of publication supplied by the vendor, May 2011.
Other Titles - Oceania, drawn and lithographed by Belin. Published with text from the Journal of Mothers and Children. [translation]
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, om sheet cropped to 290 x 378 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Hand-coloured engraving, om sheet cropped to 290 x 378 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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