Tag: 1800s

La mort (naufrage) de Virginie

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais
Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

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Naufrage de Virginie / Gravure de Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger (1767 – 1841), d’après Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823)
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Paul et Virginie. Paris: Pierre Didot l’Ainé, 1806.
Engraving after Prudhon. Luxury edition put together by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. | src Bonhams

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.