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Shipwreck - Narcisse Nicaise facing a giant octopus (Congo)
Original wood engraving drawn by Deschamps, engraved by Castelli. Hand watercolored. Text on the reverse. 1881

1881XIXth Century
  • Date : 1881
  • Century : 19th Century
  • Period : IIIrd Republic
  • Technique : Wood engraving
  • Support : Paper
  • Sheet : 31.0 x 22.0 cm
  • Plate : 22.0 x 18.0 cm
  • Inventory N° : FR-59285
60€
(Frame not included)
  • Certificate of authenticity
  • Passepartout included
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Shipwreck - Narcisse Nicaise facing a giant octopus (Congo)

Description

Original wood engraving drawn by Deschamps, engraved by Castelli. Hand watercolored. Text on the reverse. 1881

The Galerie Napoléon is pleased to propose to you this wood engraving printed 143 years ago (in 1881).

As for all the artworks of our collections, this wood engraving Shipwreck - Narcisse Nicaise facing a giant octopus (Congo) dating from 1881 is dispatched worldwide within 24H in a secured packaging, accompanied by its certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the name of the artists draughtsman, engraver, lithographer), the impression process used (Wood engraving) and its date (1881).

In order to guarantee a perfect conservation in time, this wood engraving is dispatched, ready to be framed, under color passepartout (manufactured without acid in the pulp for a neutral pH) on a cream mountboard made from carton bois (also acid free & neutral pH).

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This artwork is part of a collection of 56 wood engravings entitled « Explorers (1880-1881) »

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