IMAGE
Artist unknown :Wilder von den Admiralitats Inseln. Tanzerin, Frau von den Freundschafts Inseln. 37. [After Piron. ca 1800]
- Date
- 1800 - 1810
- By
- Piron, Jean, active 1791-1794
- Reference
- A-452-012
- Description
Shows three standing figures: the first, a frontal portrait of a man wearing large loop earrings and a nose ring. He is holding a lime bottle in his right hand (used for dipping betel leaves into, before chewing). He has a paddle in his left hand. The middle figure, the Tongan dancer, wears a wreath around her waist and holds a patterned wrap around her hips and legs, and her posture is as though she is swaying. The figure on the right shows another Tongan woman, with tattoos on her shoulders and upper arm, and possibly in a necklace shape. She leans her head to her left on her shoulder, and holds her hands over her breasts and the draped garment she wears.
Trimmed inside plate marks
Derived from engravings by Copia after drawings by Piron. Ref A-015-024; B-112-010; and A-211-037
Other Titles - A savage of the Admiralty Islands. [Female] dancer; woman, from the Friendly Islands [translation]
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, image 111 x 84 mm, on sheet 145 x 111 mm
Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, September 2012
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Portraits, Hand-coloured engraving, image 111 x 84 mm, on sheet 145 x 111 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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Piron, Jean, active 1791-1794. Artist unknown :Wilder von den Admiralitats Inseln. Tanzerin, Frau von den Freundschafts Inseln. 37. [After Piron. ca 1800]. Ref: A-452-012. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/31982284More information can be found in our terms of use.