Couverture du "Voyage à la nouvelle Zélande" (Cover for the Set of Etchings Entitled "A Voyage to New Zealand"), 1866

Not on View

Medium

etching on brown wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.2 × 23.8 cm (6 × 9 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.5 × 35.5 cm (11 5/8 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 100, State viii/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.6205

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"(Charles Meryon's monogram) / 1866" lower center composition, in plate. "C.M. imp rue Duperré 20" lower right margin, in plate. "Paris" lower left margin, in plate. "DIVERSES PIECES GRAVÉES / COLLECTE, GAIN, BUTIN / DE / COURSE et de CHASSE / Fairs au mouillage et à la mer; pendant / LE / VOYAGE À LA NOUVELLE ZÉLANDE / Accompli de MDCCCXLII à XLVI sur le / NAVIRE RHIN, / Sous les ordres de Mr le Capitaine de Vaisseau, (mort contre-Amiral en 1852) / A. BÉRARD / COMMANDANT LA STATION À AKAROA. / PRESQU'ILE DE BANKS." center composition, in plate. "Uvéa / Les Mulgraves / Tonga" center left composition, in plate. "Ballade / Taiti / Oné-cke" center right composition, in plate. "W.66 LD. 63 IV" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c. 4299" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "1" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Bibliography

1924: Delteil, Loys and Harold J.L. Wright. Catalogue raisonne of the Etchings of Charles Meryon. New York: Winfred Porter Truesdell, 1924.

1990: Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints by Charles Meryon. London: Garton & Co., 1990.