MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)

Lot 113
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Lot 113 | MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)
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€ 3 000 – 5 000
MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)

Deux scènes de travaux artisanaux sur l’île de Guam (Mer des philippines) 19 mars 1819 : Vue d’une distillerie ; et Travaux mécaniques (forge, menuiserie)

titré ‘Four à pain et alambic/ pour distiller l'eau de vie/ de Coco, à Agaña, / ile de Guam. / (marianne)’ (i) ; et ‘agaña, ile de Guam/ iles Marianne’ (ii)

graphite, plume et encre noire et brune

17,4 x 24,4 cm (6 7⁄8 x 9 5⁄8 in.) (i) ; 18,2 x 27,4 cm (7 1⁄8 x 9 5⁄8 in.) (ii)

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L. de Freycinet, Voyage autour du monde [...] exécuté sur les corvettes de S. M. ‘l’Uranie’ et ‘la Physicienne’, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, Paris, 1824-1844, pl. 68 (Vue d’une distillerie).



Further details

MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION, TWO SCENES OF MECHANICAL WORKS ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM : VIEW OF A DISTILLERY, AND SEVERAL HAND-CRAFTED WORKS (WOODWORKING AND FORGE), GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN AND BLACK INK, EACH DRAWING INSCRIBED

A watercolour version of this sketch from the De Freycinet collection was sold at Christies, London, 26 September 2002, lot 51. At the bottom of that drawing, the subject is described in the following terms: ‘This scene gives an idea of a certain activity, which is however not the work of our actors: it is with the aim of bringing together the different workers, that we have modified the truth.’ This scene will illustrate the chapter entitled Divers travaux mécaniques in De Freycinet’s Atlas historique (Paris, 1825).
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