Echouage des corvettes dans le Canal Mauvais, Detroit de Torres [The grounding of the corvettes in the Canal Mauvais, Torres Strait]

Artist: b'Le Breton, Louis.' | Title: b'Echouage des corvettes dans le Canal Mauvais, Detroit de Torres [The grounding of the corvettes in the Canal Mauvais, Torres Strait]' | Date: 1846 | Technique: b'lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone'
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Primary Artist

Louis Le Breton (1818–1866)

Title

Echouage des corvettes dans le Canal Mauvais, Detroit de Torres [The grounding of the corvettes in the Canal Mauvais, Torres Strait]

Source

Dumont D'Urville, Jules. 'Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee...Atlas [Pittoresque]'. Paris: Gide, 1841-1855.

Page or Plate number

plate 187

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),

Date made

1846

Place made

Europe, France, Ile-de-France, Paris View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone

Matrix size

27.2 x 39.8 cm (printed image)

Support

white wove paper

Support size

35.7 x 55.0 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

Blindstamped, lower centre 'GIDE/Editeur/Paris'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

133069

Accession number

2005.112

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 3, 2005/2006 (2005-12-07)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from the Cabinet of Discoveries, Canberra, December 2005.

Credit line

Purchased 2005

Subject categories

Voyages of exploration and discovery 1600-1900: French | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Queensland

Creators

Le Breton, Louis. | (1818–1866) French | Male | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013