Rock formations - French Polynesia - Tahiti (Island)

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1824 - 1843 - 1836

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

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Boisseau, active 1835

Reference: A-318-047

Description: Shows the face of a cliff with waterfall, above a river. Plate 162 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Boisseau as the engraver. Other Titles - Archipel de Taiti - Le Pika malle ou rocher basaltique Other Titles - Ile taiti - rocher de basalte de 150 pieds de haut et cascade du Pya Other Titles - Tahiti - basalt rock 150 feet high, and the waterfall of Piha Malle 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 - 162 Lejeune accompanied Duperrey's voyage in 1824. 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: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-038

Description: View of the village of Maupiti (Tahiti) showing dwellings, coconut palms, canoes in the water, and a backdrop of a rocky hillside. On the far right there is a row of cliffs overlooking the ocean. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1931 - 1936 - 1937

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-914-q-003

Description: Includes: two lionesses lying in silhouette; a Tahitian landscape with clouds and rocky outcrop; and two women kneeling beside a pool with baskets. Photographed in E-918-q, 278/210a, 279/172c and 280/118a. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Extended Title - From her [Album of prints. 1929-1938] page [3 Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings, on page, 290 x 360 mm.

Date: 1936

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-915-q-012

Description: Shows a landscape view between two slopes in Tahiti, towards a rocky outcrop, overshadowed by two large and unusually shaped clouds. Photographed in E-918-q, 139, 140 and 141 / 171. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Extended Title - From her '[Album of prints, 1930-1937; 1978-1980 ...]', page [12 Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Three wood engravings, each 105 x 67 mm, on sheets, sizes varying around 120 x 80 mm.

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-036

Description: A tall rocky peak, close to a coral reef, with an island in the background. Two naked Tahitian men are on a rock in the left foreground and there are coconut palms and other vegetation at the base of the rock. Based on an ink drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1824-1826 visit to the Pacific. The original drawing has the title 'Vue du piton de Borabora, pres du pied. Il a plus de 200 pieds debout, et il faut gravir une montagne de 300 L [?] avant d'y parvenir'. The original drawing is in the Bibliotheque du Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes, Paris (MSA4211). The Library has a photograph, neg 116082 1/2. LeJeune's title can be translated as 'View of the peak of Borabora, near its foot. It is more than 200 feet tall and it is necessary to climb a mountain of 300 [?] before reaching this point'. The original drawing has only one Tahitian man in the left foreground, and includes three faintly sketched in canoes to the left of the peak. Other Titles - View of the peak of Borabora Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 200 mm