Nlle Hollande. Vue prise aux montagnes bleues; and Nlle Hollande (Aborigines fighting)

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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
Nlle Hollande. Vue prise aux montagnes bleues; and Nlle Hollande (Aborigines fighting)
the first signed 'Js Arago' (lower right) and inscribed as title, the second signed 'Js Arago ft.' (lower right), inscribed 'Nlle hollande' (lower centre) and with inscription 'Dessins faits pendant le Voyage de l'Uranie Uranie. Doubles' on the reverse.
pencil on paper
6 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.2 x 24.5cm.)
18 x 25¼in. (45.7 x 64.2cm.)
2 (2)

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Lot Essay

The landscape of the first drawing was the model for plate 24 in Arago's Narrative (London, 1823) 'Views taken in the interior of New South Wales, on the borders of the River Kinkham': 'A slender streamlet of water found its way with difficulty amid scattered pieces of fock, which the floods had brought down thus far from the summit of the mountains ... my guide ... told me ... that the opposite bank was ofter frequented by savage hordes, led by convicts who had escaped from their fetters.' (J. Arago, Narrative)

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