Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854; Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Doms, active 1840s

Reference: A-119-012

Description: A head and shoulders portrait Queen Kaonoe, shown as a young bare-breasted woman wearing a headdress, necklace and tattoos. Images may be based on an original drawing by Louis Choris in 1815-1818. It may be loosely based on his "Reine Cahoumanou", lithographed in 1822. It may also be after a drawing by Jacques Arago showing Queen Kaonoe Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Queen of the Sandwich islands Other Titles - Hawaii Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1816 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-001

Description: Shows the Ahuena heiau, a great raised stonework platform built on a point at the Western end of Kamakahonu. The temple is thatched with bundles of dried ti leaves and stands within a fenced enclosure. John Ii, part of Kamehameha's court at the time, describes it thus: "Ahuena house, which was a heiau, was enclosed within a fence of lama wood and within this fence, toward the front on the west and facing inland, there was an anu'u tower. A row of images stood along its front, as befitted a Hale o Lono [House of Lono, god of peace and agriculture]. Images stood at the northwest corner of the house, with a stone pavement in front ... On the west side of the outer entrance was a large image called Koleamoku, on whose helmet perched the figure of a plover". (Quoted in: "Encounter with paradise; views of Hawaii and its people, 1778-1941", by David Forbes, 1992). This engraving copies Choris' original watercolour, but adds a barge at the left foreground, and brings forward slightly the distant scene at left, making the village closer, and the far hills less obvious. Unlike Choris' original, it omits the four figures sitting and bathing in the centre foreground. Plate 17 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist (from Choris) for this plate. Other Titles - Temple taboue Other Titles - Sacred temple Other Titles - Temple on the island of Hawaii Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 17 Choris accompanied the voyage of Captain Otto von Kotzebue, 1815-1818. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1815 - 1835 - 1838 - 1818 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Monin, active 1835; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-037

Description: Shows an outrigger canoe with triangular sail, and five people aboard. They are passing the waterfront of an island on which a group of dwellings is shown among palm trees and vegetation. Plate 147 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Monin as the engraver. Plate XIV of the Isles Sandwich section of Choris' "Voyage pittoreque autour du monde" (1822). Other Titles - Polynesie - Vue d'une ile dans le groupe Krusenstern Other Titles - Polynesia - View of an island in the Krusenstern group Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 147 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1815 - 1843 - 1836 - 1818

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-024

Description: Shows a view reversed from that of the lithograph in Choris' "Voyage pittoreque autour du monde" (1822). In the centre, a group of about twelve women, wearing frilled and gathered skirts, necklaces, and grassy plumes at their shoulders, perform for onlookers, in particular, two men sitting in the left foreground on a rock. There are a few figures sitting on the ground in the right background, but no other background detail (cf Choris' lithograph mentioned above). Plate 119 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Mariage engraved the French version, but the engraver for the Italian version is not given (it may also have been Mariage). Plate XVI in Choris' "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde" (1822), held at ATL, f910.4 KOT CHO. Other Titles - Iles Haouai - Danse des femmes Other Titles - Danse des femmes dans les Iles Sandwich Other Titles - Women's dance in the Hawaiian Islands Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 119 Choris was the artist on board Otto von Kotzebue's voyage in 1815-1818. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1816 - 1817

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828

Reference: A-119-031

Description: Shows a man of the island of Tikei in the Tuamotus). He has tattooing on his torso, large discs in his ears, and a topknot. He wears gathered full bloomers. Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Other Titles - Native of the Romanzoff Archipelago, Oceania Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. After the engraving entitled "Rarick" used as a frontispiece in volume 2 of "Voyage of discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits, in search of a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick" by Otto von Kotzebue. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1815 - 1835 - 1838 - 1818 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828

Reference: A-318-018

Description: Shows two roofed shelters without walls, and on the other side of them, a raised roofed structure, perhaps a storehouse. In the right foreground is a group of women and one man kneeling. One of the women has a tall drum between her legs, and some of the women are gesturing as if in dance. In the left background, is a view of the sea and a sailboat. Plate 109 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Chollet engraved the French version, but the engraver for the Italian version is not given (it may also have been Chollet). Plate XIX in L Choris' "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde 1815-18" (1822), where it is attributed to Choris. Other Titles - Archipel des Carolines - Vue de l'ile Radak Other Titles - View in Radak [?] Island in the Caroline Archipelago Other Titles - Vue dans les iles Radak Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 109 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1800 - 1816 - 1805 - 1817

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Petit, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804; Fuchs, Charles, 1803-1874

Reference: A-340-057

Description: Shows at left a version of the Choris portrait of Kamehameha I, King of the Hawaiian Islands, in this case in Western clothing with white shirt, waistcoat and black tie. His hair is white. At the right is a cropped version of the Nicolas-Martin Petit portrait of Naba-Leba, showing just the head and shoulders. Published as pl. in: Schinz, H R. Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Menschen ... Zurich, Honneger, 1840. (Library has 3rd ed shelved at q573 SCH). Other Titles - Kamehameha, king of the Sandwich Islands; Naba-Leba, king of Solor Nicolas-Martin Petit was in Indonesia around 1800-1805. Louis Choris was in Hawaii 1816-1817. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured lithograph, on sheet 242 x 340 mm.

Date: 1822

From: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amerique, d'Asie, d'Afrique et des iles du Grand Ocean ... Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Langlume, active 1820s-1830s; Franquelin, Jean Augustin, 1798-1839

Reference: PUBL-0072-12

Description: Three Hawaiian men dancing, surrounded by a ring of spectators, several holding drums. Coconut palms and the sides of several dwellings are visible in the background. The dancers are wearing skirts and anklets and holding shields. Other Titles - Men's dance in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) Extended Title - From: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde ... (Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822). Plate 12. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 188 x 282 mm

Date: 1822

From: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amerique, d'Asie, d'Afrique et des iles du Grand Ocean ... Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Langlume, active 1820s-1830s

Reference: PUBL-0072-16

Description: A group of Hawaiian women dancing, surrounded by a ring of spectators. Three of the spectators are European men in top hats. Coconut palms, another large tree and the side of a dwelling are visible in the background. The dancers are wearing skirts and anklets, leis and flowers in their hair. Other Titles - Women's dance in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) Extended Title - From: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828. Voyage pittoresque autour du monde ... (Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822), Plate 16. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 187 x 281 mm