Antarctica.- Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois, French painter who participated in several Arctic expeditions, 1805-1890) Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), caught in pack ice in Antarctica, pen and black ink, watercolour, heightened with white, sheet 305 x 245 mm. (12 x 9 5/8 in), laid onto card mount with erroneous later inscription below that reads 'The Isabella + Alexander in Baffins Bay 1819, Captain Ross [?] Peary', some browning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1838]. ⁂ A typed label from a previous frame included with the watercolour records that 'Admiral Sir Lane Poole tells me [J. Stevens-Cox] a Print of this original water colour is in the Macpherson collection'; the print mentioned is the lithograph by Mayer 'Les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee, commandees par Dumont-Durville et Jacquinot, la corvette l'Astrolabe est arretee par une glace a la sortie de la banquise, parages antarctiques, 9 Fevrier 1838', which was published by Gambart Junin & Co., circa 1841. Mayer's lithograph features a wider composition than the present watercolour with more details to each side, but it is possible that the watercolour has been slightly trimmed. Provenance: Vice Admiral Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole (1883-1971); J. Stevens Cox
Antarctica.- Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois, French painter who participated in several Arctic expeditions, 1805-1890) Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), caught in pack ice in Antarctica, pen and black ink, watercolour, heightened with white, sheet 305 x 245 mm. (12 x 9 5/8 in), laid onto card mount with erroneous later inscription below that reads 'The Isabella + Alexander in Baffins Bay 1819, Captain Ross [?] Peary', some browning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1838]. ⁂ A typed label from a previous frame included with the watercolour records that 'Admiral Sir Lane Poole tells me [J. Stevens-Cox] a Print of this original water colour is in the Macpherson collection'; the print mentioned is the lithograph by Mayer 'Les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee, commandees par Dumont-Durville et Jacquinot, la corvette l'Astrolabe est arretee par une glace a la sortie de la banquise, parages antarctiques, 9 Fevrier 1838', which was published by Gambart Junin & Co., circa 1841. Mayer's lithograph features a wider composition than the present watercolour with more details to each side, but it is possible that the watercolour has been slightly trimmed. Provenance: Vice Admiral Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole (1883-1971); J. Stevens Cox
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