Lot 96
96
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALOUINES) (Lot 96) The Uranie had sailed from New South Wales in December 1819 and reached the Falkland Islands in February 1820. The hull of the ship was damaged on rocks off the islands. The wreck damaged Gaudichaud's herbarium, some of the natural history specimens and Arago's sketchbooks. The expedition was stranded on the islands for 73 days before Freycinet acquired another ship, the Mercury, which he renamed the Physicienne and which took the expedition safely home to France via Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. The voyage had lasted three years and fifty-seven days by the time they sailed into Le Havre on 13 November 1820.
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) and J. Alphonse Pellion (fl.1817-1820)

(Iles Malouines): Le camp des Malouines; Le camp des Malouines; Ruines d'un établissement aux Malouines; Une vue de l'intérieur de la baie Francaise (Iles Malouines) prise d'un hauteur situe pres des Ruines de l'ancien etablissement (le camp de l'Uranie etait au dessous du oiseau, au fond de la baie); and Le camp de l'Uranie aux Malouines

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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) and J. Alphonse Pellion (fl.1817-1820)
(Iles Malouines): Le camp des Malouines; Le camp des Malouines; Ruines d'un établissement aux Malouines; Une vue de l'intérieur de la baie Francaise (Iles Malouines) prise d'un hauteur situe pres des Ruines de l'ancien etablissement (le camp de l'Uranie etait au dessous du oiseau, au fond de la baie); and Le camp de l'Uranie aux Malouines
three signed with initials 'JA' or 'JsA' (lower right), all inscribed as titles
pencil on paper, one watermark top of crown (Montgolfier)
8 7/8 x 11 13/16in. (22.5 x 30cm.) and smaller
and Marchais' brown wash drawing after Pellion for plate 109 in the Atlas Historique
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Atlas Historique, pl.109 (the fourth subject by Pellion).

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