Lot Essay
Presumably worked up by Arago in France from the previous watercolour in preparation for Forget's engraving
Details
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
Coupang: Ile Timor. Chinoises jouant au Tchonka
grey wash heightened with white
10 1/8 x 12 7/8in. (25.7 x 32.7cm.)
Coupang: Ile Timor. Chinoises jouant au Tchonka
grey wash heightened with white
10 1/8 x 12 7/8in. (25.7 x 32.7cm.)
Provenance
as Lot 59
Engraved
by Forget in L.-C. de Saulces de Freycinet, Voyage autour du Monde, etc., Atlas Historiques, Paris 1825, pl. 25 (without the Timorese figure on the right)