GUAM
After the equatorial heat and fevers on the passage north from Timor, Freycinet and his crew recuperated on Guam from March to June 1819 and enjoyed the generous hospitality of the Island's Governor Don Midinilla. Arago and two companions took the opportuninty to explore the ruins of the nearby island of Tinian (see lot ).
Guam is the largest of the Ladrones or Mariannes, a group of islands in the North Pacific. It was occupied by the Spanish until ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1898
Adrien Aimé Taunay (1803-1828)
Details
Adrien Aimé Taunay (1803-1828)
Guham - Manière de voyager par terre à Guham
signed, inscribed as title and dated 'Taunay Jne fecit 1819',
pen and ink and watercolour
10 9/16 x 12 3/8in. (26.8 x 31.5cm.)
Guham - Manière de voyager par terre à Guham
signed, inscribed as title and dated 'Taunay Jne fecit 1819',
pen and ink and watercolour
10 9/16 x 12 3/8in. (26.8 x 31.5cm.)
Provenance
as Lot 59
Literature
R. de Saulces de Freycinet, Campagne de L'"Uranie" (1817-1820), Journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, Paris, 1927, pl. XXIII
Exhibited
Paris, Musée de la Marine, Grands Voiliers autour de Monde, Les Voyages Scientifiques, 10 March-8 April, 1962, no. 59
Engraved
by Desaulx and Gessard in L.-.C. de Saulces de Freycinet, Voyage autour du Monde, etc., Atlas Historique, Paris, 1825, pl. 66 (where the central porter is in the background which also shows the college at Agagna, Guam. The engraving credits Arago with the original drawing. Presumably the engravers have taken the figures from the present watercolour and the background from a work by Arago)