'Portrait de Raden Rana Dipura Natif du Java, qui suivit Mr. Raffles en Angleterre'

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(4) Hillaire Antoine Kreins (1806-1862) engraver
'Portrait de Raden Rana Dipura Natif du Java, qui suivit Mr. Raffles en Angleterre'
Lithograph, printed in colours, signed in the stone Kreins, plate 16 from Fr.J.F. Marchal's Description de Java, published by J.B.A.M. Jobard, Brussels (Paris), 1824-25, few minor fox marks, otherwise apparently in good condition, unexamined out of the frame
251 x 199 mm.
and three coloured lithographs titled 'Habitant de Madura ayant le Rang de Mantri' (plate 9); 'Femme Javanaise de la basse classe' (plate 10); 'A Pengànten Lanang, ou le Fiancé'(plate 14), from the same publication, framed and glazed (4)

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Lot Essay

The ten in total costume plates from Description de Java are reputed to be the first coloured lithographs of Indonesian costume. (Cf. literature: J. Bastin & B. Brommer, Nineteenth Century Prints of Indonesia, Utrecht, 1979, p.9)

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