MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers - photo 1
MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers - photo 2
MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers - photo 3

MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers

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Lot 172 | MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers
MAISONNEUVE, J. (artist, printer & publisher), Edouard PITOT (1778-1860), Alfred RICHARD (1824-1880) and other artists and lithographers

Souvenirs de Maurice. [Bound with:] – [Fruits of Mauritius.] [And :] – Ile Maurice. Port-Louis, Mauritius: Maisonneuve and Devaux & Cie, [n.d. but c. 1850-1853].

Extremely rare set of three suites of finely hand-coloured plates depicting the topography, fruits and trees of Mauritius. Quentin Keynes’ set, which sold in these rooms 7-8 April 2004, lot 203, contained 47 plates only, but apparently had 22 plates (tinted only) from the Souvenirs de Maurice, 21 hand-coloured plates of fruit, and a further three plates comprising two tinted views and a genre scene, and an uncoloured plan of the island of Réunion. Another set of the Ile Maurice series comprising 16 plates, appeared in Paris in 2008 (Kahn-Dumousset, 4 April 2008, lot 18). Apart from the Bibliothèque nationale de France holding 25 lithographs from the Souvenirs series, including eight not found here, but lacking three plates which are in this volume (‘View at “Riviere du Poste” (Savanna)’; ‘“Montagne du Rempart”, from Plaines Wilhems’; and ‘Stag hunting’), we have not been able to trace any other series. There was an exhibition of Pitot's work at the National History Museum of Mauritius in 2018, and Richard is identified as a leading figure among the 'accomplished Mauritian artists' who emerged in the second half of the 19th century (de Kervern & Martial, Mauritius: 500 Early Postcards, p. 11). Toussaint & Adolphe Bibliography of Mauritius B115 (stating that Souvenirs de Maurice was published monthly). Bobins IV, 1258.



3 suites of plates bound in one, oblong folio (337 x 508mm). Without separate title or text, 56 lithographs in total, all in contemporary hand-colour, comprising: Souvenirs de Maurice, 20 hand-coloured lithographs of which 18 are topographical views and 2 hunting scenes, 12 after Richard, 4 after Pitot, 3 'from a daguerrotype', and 1 after E. Crook, each with printed series title (first 4 plates heavily toned, first 2 plates with very short marginal tears, plate 4 with a 40mm tear just into caption and with old tape repair, light spotting confined mainly to margins but sometimes into plate area); Fruits de Maurice, 20 hand-coloured lithographs of fruit heightened with gum arabic, of which 10 after Richard, 3 after 'Bojer', 5 after Maisonneuve (as artist and lithographer), and 2 unsigned (light marginal finger-soiling to a couple of plates, faint marginal spotting to Mahogany Fruits plate); Ile Maurice, 16 hand-coloured lithographs of trees all after Pitot excepting the first which is unsigned, each with printed series title and all but the first with imprint Devaux et Cie, final lithograph heightened with gum arabic (variable spotting to first and last few plates, tiny marginal nick to Traveller’s Tree plate). Contemporary cloth (rebacked and recornered with library cloth, extremities lightly rubbed and stained).





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