ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE) - photo 1
ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE) - photo 2

ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)

Lot 95
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1390035
Lot 95 | ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)
Estimate value
€ 5 000 – 7 000
ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)
Chantier de construction à Coupang sur l'Île Timor; et Champs cultivés à Bathurst en Australie
Signé ‘M. A. Pellion del’ (en bas à droite) (1), ‘M. Pelion’ (en bas à droite (2) et inscrit
‘ Coupang: Ile Timor/ vue d'un Chantier de Construction’ (en bas au centre) (1); et ‘Cette vue de Bathurst comprend presque toutes les maisons de cet établissement ; elle est prise/ des magazins à paille qui sont situés à l’extrémité du jardin du super-intendant./ La riv. Macquarie passe entre le 2d plan où se trouve ici les maisons, et le lointain/ qui représente des colines de la plaine de Bathurst. Dans ce lointain, on peut voir/ les fermes de Mr Cox. / dessiné à Bathurst le 4 déc 1819.’ (en bas au centre) (2) et avec numérotation ‘56’ (en haut à droite) (2)

graphite, aquarelle, traces de filigrane lettres
29 x 37,5 cm (11 ½ x 14 ¾ in.)(2)




Engraved

L. de Freycinet, Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. ‘l’Uranie’ et ‘la physicienne’, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, Paris, 1824-1844, pl. 23. (1)



Further details

ALPHONSE PELLION, TWO DRAWINGS: COUPANG, TIMOR ISLAND; AND VIEW OF BATHURST DATED 4 DECEMBER 1819, GRAPHITE, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED AND TITLED

In September 1817, Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet and his crew of engineers, scientists and draughtsmen set sail from the harbour of Toulon and travelled the world on their ship. Alphonse Pellion took part in the expedition as a draughtsman and produced a series of drawings of the landscapes and peoples they encountered. This lot of watercolours shows a shipyard at Coupang on the island of Timor (undated) and fields in the colony of Bathurst in Australia (dated 4 December 1819).This composition of the shipyard at Coupang (now Kupang in Indonesia) was engraved in Louis de Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. ‘l'Uranie’ et ‘la physicienne’, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 published in Paris between 1824 and 1844 (pl. 23). This drawing is probably a preparatory sketch for the publication. A drawing done solely in brown washes and with a slightly different composition was sold at Christie's, London, 26 September 2002, lot 52.

The second drawing of this lot presents one of the earliest known illustrations of this colony, founded a few years earlier and the oldest inland settlement in Australia. The caption to the drawing, written by Pellion, refers to the Macquarie River, named after Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), Governor of New South Wales from 1808 to 1822 (‘Lachlan Macquarie’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 2, Melbourne, 1967, revised and digitised 2006, accessed January 2025), and the farms of William Cox (1764-1837), superintendent of the colony and known for overseeing the construction of the ‘Cox Road’ through the Blue Mountains from 1814 (‘William Cox’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.1, Melbourne, 1966, revised and digitised 2006, accessed January 2025).
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