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Louis Serrurier after John Webber, William Hodges and Sydney Parkinson
Peoples of the Pacific
1802

    $1,200.00

    A very appealing “gallery of peoples of the Pacific”, hand-coloured and still very fresh

    Artist: Louis Serrurier (German) after John Webber (1751-1793), William Hodges (1744-1797) and Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771)
    Title: Peoples of the Pacific
    Date: 1802
    School: German, XIXth-century
    Medium: hand-coloured etching
    Dimensions: 230 x 175mm (plate), 232 x 179mm (sheet)
    Watermark: none
    Inscriptions/marks: in the plate upper left border <<Gallerie der Welt. IIIter B.>>, in the plate upper right border <<Taf. V.>>, in the plate letters a-q and corresponding identifications in German, in the plate lower left below the figure marked with and l <<Serrurier fecit aqua forte 1801>> printed in reverse (see image below)

    Condition: good condition on laid paper with original hand-colouring. Plate 5 from the third volume of Gallerie der Welt ….. Berlin, 1802. The images of the people of the Pacific are based on earlier images by John Webber, William Hodges and Sydney Parkinson.
    Provenance: Peter Wedde Antiques, Wellington, 1996