A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Moluquoise.
Desrais del. Mixelle sculp.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Fine coloured etching. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), very large margins.
A warrior of the Moluccas, seated on an elephant, holding a spear and shield. Engraved by Jean-Marie Mixelle after Claude Louis Desrais (1746-1816) for Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur's 'Costumes civiles actuels de tous les peuples connus'.
[Ref: 61452] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Desrais del. Mixelle sculp.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Fine coloured etching. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), very large margins.
A warrior of the Moluccas, seated on an elephant, holding a spear and shield. Engraved by Jean-Marie Mixelle after Claude Louis Desrais (1746-1816) for Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur's 'Costumes civiles actuels de tous les peuples connus'.
[Ref: 61452] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Moluquoise.
Desrais del. Mixelle sculp.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Fine coloured etching. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), very large margins.
A woman of the Moluccas, with a very wide-brimmed hat. Engraved by Jean-Marie Mixelle after Claude Louis Desrais (1746-1816) for Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur's 'Costumes civiles actuels de tous les peuples connus'.
[Ref: 61451] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Desrais del. Mixelle sculp.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Fine coloured etching. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), very large margins.
A woman of the Moluccas, with a very wide-brimmed hat. Engraved by Jean-Marie Mixelle after Claude Louis Desrais (1746-1816) for Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur's 'Costumes civiles actuels de tous les peuples connus'.
[Ref: 61451] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Le Naufrage de Virginie. Paul alloit s’élancer à la mer, lorsque je le saisais par le bras: mon fils, lui dis-je, voulez vous périr? Que j aille à son secours s’écria-l’il, ou que je meurt!__Paul et Virginie.
Peint par Lambert. Gravé para Felix Mizelle.
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Comp.e sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint and etching, 414 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The shipwreck. Paul watches on in horror from the shore as a ship is hurled by a huge wave towards rocks on the tropical island of Mauritius; he is restrainted by one white and two black companions. Virginia and a black slave stand on the deck of the doomed ship. The most famous ship name in the history of Mauritius is the slaveship St. Géran which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's northeast coast. Only nine survived the wreck and it inspired the novel Paul et Virginie by Bernadin de St. Pierre. In the novel Virginie, out of modesty, refuses to remove her clothes so that the sailor can carry her to shore and is consequently drowned. On shore grief stricken Paul dies soon afterwards. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
See Ref: 18009 for a rare coloured version of the scene.
[Ref: 28894] £450.00
Peint par Lambert. Gravé para Felix Mizelle.
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Comp.e sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint and etching, 414 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The shipwreck. Paul watches on in horror from the shore as a ship is hurled by a huge wave towards rocks on the tropical island of Mauritius; he is restrainted by one white and two black companions. Virginia and a black slave stand on the deck of the doomed ship. The most famous ship name in the history of Mauritius is the slaveship St. Géran which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's northeast coast. Only nine survived the wreck and it inspired the novel Paul et Virginie by Bernadin de St. Pierre. In the novel Virginie, out of modesty, refuses to remove her clothes so that the sailor can carry her to shore and is consequently drowned. On shore grief stricken Paul dies soon afterwards. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
See Ref: 18009 for a rare coloured version of the scene.
[Ref: 28894] £450.00
Paul et Virginie. a peine cette lettre fut lue dans la famille qu’elle y rependit la Consternation. Domingue et Marie se mirent a pleurer, Paul, immobile’ détonnement, paroissoit prêt a se metre en colete. Rirginie les yeux fixés sur sa Mere n’osoit proferer un mot.
Lambert delineavit. Mixelle le J.e Sculp.t
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Compagnie sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. 418 x 560mm (16½ x 22").
A scene depicting the lovers Paul and Virginia, from the novel set on the island of Mauritius, then named Ile de France. Paul and Virginia are seen here with Domingue and Marie, two black slaves who support the young French couple, the slaves' dog Fidele is seen lying in the foreground. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
[Ref: 28893] £450.00
Lambert delineavit. Mixelle le J.e Sculp.t
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Compagnie sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. 418 x 560mm (16½ x 22").
A scene depicting the lovers Paul and Virginia, from the novel set on the island of Mauritius, then named Ile de France. Paul and Virginia are seen here with Domingue and Marie, two black slaves who support the young French couple, the slaves' dog Fidele is seen lying in the foreground. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
[Ref: 28893] £450.00