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AFTER F.CASANOVA
Tigre tué en Amerique par... le Prince Nassau Siegan dans son voyage autour du monde sur la Boudeuse Fregatte du Roi commandée par Monsieur le Comte de Bougainvile.
by Jean Jacobé
mezzotint, Vienna, 1787. Small tears, to the blank margin in the main, but one just affecting lower margins of plate area, light old creasing and soiling.
271/2 x 381/2in (69.5 x 97.5cm)
Charles Orthon, prince de Nassau-Siegen, (1745-1809) accompanied Louis-Antoine de Bourgainville on his voyage around the world in the frigate La Boudeuse with the transport L'Étoile. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the events which took place in the Pacific, but before passing through the Straits of Magellen the expedition had made landfall in Argentina (Bougainville had been charged with officially handing over the Falkland Islands to the Spanish), and it was here that the incident depicted would have taken place. The 'Tigre' was presumably a Jaguar.
Tigre tué en Amerique par... le Prince Nassau Siegan dans son voyage autour du monde sur la Boudeuse Fregatte du Roi commandée par Monsieur le Comte de Bougainvile.
by Jean Jacobé
mezzotint, Vienna, 1787. Small tears, to the blank margin in the main, but one just affecting lower margins of plate area, light old creasing and soiling.
271/2 x 381/2in (69.5 x 97.5cm)
Charles Orthon, prince de Nassau-Siegen, (1745-1809) accompanied Louis-Antoine de Bourgainville on his voyage around the world in the frigate La Boudeuse with the transport L'Étoile. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the events which took place in the Pacific, but before passing through the Straits of Magellen the expedition had made landfall in Argentina (Bougainville had been charged with officially handing over the Falkland Islands to the Spanish), and it was here that the incident depicted would have taken place. The 'Tigre' was presumably a Jaguar.