Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de--Oudart, P., Chazal and Bevalet

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Sold

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Description

Four original drawings of marine life made for Freycinet’s Voyage autour du monde (1824-1837)
paper

Comprising 2 studies of fish by Oudart, and one by Chazal (engraved as plates 53, 58 and 59 in the Atlas zoologique), and a drawing of a sperm whale by Bevalet after a drawing by Captain Benjamin Hammat of the Whaler Ocean, met off Timor (engraved as plate 12 in the Atlas historique)

Provenance

Sale, "The Freycinet Collection", Christie's, 26 September 2002, lot 100