Monin, active 1835

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: 1774 - 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: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Monin, active 1835; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Woollett, William, 1735-1785

Reference: A-318-038

Description: Shows a double-hulled war canoe in the foreground, with a figure in a tall white-feathered headdress at the left end, and about ten men sitting on the boat's platform. In the right background are two other boats of the same design, flying small square flags tied to the high stern ends. Plate 148 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Monin as the engraver. Hodges made several versions of this scene (See Joppien and Smith's "The art of Captain Cook's voyages" (1985), vol 2, page 213. This version seems to be based on Woollett's engraving in Cook (17770, vol. I, plate LXI (facing page 342). Other Titles - Archipel des iles Taiti - La grande flotte Other Titles - The fleet of Otaheite assembled at Oparee Other Titles - War canoes of Tahiti 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 - 148 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: 1838 - 1835 - 1826 - 1843 - 1836 - 1829

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; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Monin, active 1835

Reference: A-318-050

Description: Shows a family of four sitting in the interior of a room with arched wooden beams. The ends of the floor plan appear to be rounded, and the left side of the house has wide openings. The man sits with a fan; the woman has two children beside her, and is working at a roll of matting. According to Domeny de Rienzi, this is the family related to the chief Tahofa. "We found there a small group of Tahofa's family with the chief's wife, mother of the male child adopted by the tamaha. This child, three and a half years old, blessed with a charming face, played beside his mother ..." Plate 192 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Monin as the engraver. The Italian edition has "Marco Juliano inc." beneath the image. Other Titles - Iles Tonga - Interieur d'une maison Other Titles - Tonga - Interior of a house, Domestic interior Other Titles - Vue interieure de la maison des femmes du chef Palou 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 - 192 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: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

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; Postels, Aleksandr, 1801-1871

Reference: A-318-014

Description: Shows a thatched hut, visible behind a group of four men, three of them sitting. Notable on two of those sitting, and on the standing man are the dotted tattoo patterns on legs and arms. The standing man holds gourds or coconuts. In the right foreground, chickens peck the ground for food. In the right background are two additional figures and a hut, and in the left background, a man in a European jacket walks by. There are palm trees behind the huts. Plate 98 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist.Monin engraved the French version, but the engraver for the Italian version is not given (it may also have been Monin). PLate 28 in F P Litke's "Voyage autour du monde 1826-29" (1835-36), where it is attributed to Postels. Other Titles - Iles Carolines (Polynesie) - Habitations Other Titles - Dwellings in the Caroline Islands Other Titles - Habitations. Iles Carolines basses 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 - 98 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm.