Masson, active 1830s

Date: 1828 - 1838

By: Rouargue, Emile, 1795?-1865; Masson, active 1830s

Reference: A-327-014

Description: Shows an interior scene, with four Europeans in naval dress, seated on the floor of a hut, addressing a line of eleven Tongan women. Some of the women are fully clothed; some are bare-breasted. Other Titles - Dumont Durville in the islands of Tonga Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage autour du monde. Volume 2 , opp. p. 135. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 120 x 180 mm on sheet 162 x 258 mm

Date: 1827 - 1834

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Rouargue, active 1830s; Masson, active 1830s

Reference: A-259-034-a

Description: Shows the dead chief wrapped in a blanket and with feathers in his hair, in a sitting position resting against a carved post. In the left foreground, a woman in a loose robe holds her head in a grieving gesture in front of a row of three heads on the ground. Three other bare-breasted women kneel in a semi-circle at the right, one cutting herself on the chest. An elaborately tattooed man in cape and tunic and holding a taiaha, stands at the right pointing to the right out of the picture. A crowd of other mourners stands in the right background. This French print is derived and imaginatively adapted from Louis de Sainson's 1834 engraving "Scene of mourning in New Zealand" ("Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle Zelande"). There are also similarities to Sainson's 1834 engraving "Funerailles d'un ariki". See Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde ..." (Paris, 1834) at qR 910.8 DUM Voya. Deframed by the Library. Other Titles - Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle-Zelande Other Titles - Funeral for a chief in New Zealand Other Titles - Funerailles d'un Ariki Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - beneath image - [Names of artist and engraver] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, on sheet, 167 x 259 mm.

Date: 1827 - 1834

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Rouargue, active 1830s; Masson, active 1830s

Reference: A-259-034

Description: Shows the dead chief wrapped in a blanket and with feathers in his hair, in a sitting position resting against a carved post. In the left foreground, a woman in a loose robe holds her head in a grieving gesture in front of a row of three heads on the ground. Three other bare-breasted women kneel in a semi-circle at the right, one cutting herself on the chest. An elaborately tattooed man in cape and tunic and holding a taiaha, stands at the right pointing to the right out of the picture. A crowd of other mourners stands in the right background. This French print is derived and imaginatively adapted from Louis de Sainson's 1834 engraving "Scene of mourning in New Zealand" ("Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle Zelande"). There are also similarities to Sainson's 1834 engraving "Funerailles d'un ariki". See Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde ..." (Paris, 1834) at qR 910.8 DUM Voya. Other Titles - Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle-Zelande Other Titles - Funeral for a chief in New Zealand Other Titles - Funerailles d'un Ariki Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - beneath image - [Names of artist and engraver] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured on sheet, 165 x 264 mm.