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Malay and Chinese music

AUBERT (engraver), Louis-Claude de Desaulses FREYCINET (after), Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR (after), Pierre-François BERNIER (after)
Malay and Chinese music
(Musique malaise et chinoise)
 1824
plate 45 in the Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes (Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands) atlas. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1824, 2nd edition

Medium
engraving

Measurements
31.7 × 24.3 cm (plate) 37.0 × 27.5 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Joe White Bequest, 2010

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Inscription
printed in ink above image, u.r.: 45
printed below the image, l.l.-l.r.: L. Freycinet, Lesueur et Bernier notaverunt . M.elle (elle in superscript above . ) Hon.ne (ne in superscript above . ) Aubert sculp.
printed in ink below image, l.c.: TIMOR . / MUSIQUE MALAISE ET CHINOISE . / J.Milbert direx.

Accession Number
2010.96.46

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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