PAITA PERU.1840 VAILLANT UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC CITY VIEW

Une Rue de Payta. Pérou.
 

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine original lithographic view of a street at Paita, Peru. Several inhabitants adorn the view.

Source: Vaillant, Auguste Nicolas. Voyage autour du Monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la Corvette la Bonite. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Éditeur, 1840-1866.
 
La Bonite was a French corvette which circumnavigated the globe between February 1836 and November 1837 under Captain Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant. This voyage sailed along the coast of South America to the West coast of the U.S.A., across the Pacific, reached the Philippines, China, Malaysia, India, Réunion Island, Cape of Good Hope, Canary Islands and Mediterranean. After two years, naturalist-surgeons Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux, Louis François Auguste Souleyet and botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré had collected thousands of specimens including more than 1,000 new species of plants and animals,

Date: 1840 ( undated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 33,9 x 50,6

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet uncolored. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. 

Writer: Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (2 July 1793 – 1 November 1858) was a French sailor who worked his way up through the ranks from common seaman to rear-admiral. In 1836–37 he captained a 21-month voyage round the globe in which the scientists made many useful botanical and zoological observations, later described in an 11-volume illustrated account. He was briefly Minister of Navy and Colonies in 1851 during the French Second Republic.
 
Engravers: Theodore Auguste Fisquet (1813-1890) has been a French lithographer.
 
Louis-Pierre-Alphonse Bichebois (1801 - 1850) He was born in Paris on April 14, 1801. His father was an upholsterer. He was brought up by his uncle, the head of the General Accounting office, François Petit. He is married and the father of a family. In his patent file, he presents himself as a painter (former student of Regnault), dealing with lithography for 7 years He died on April 17, 1851. His widow and two daughters chose to assign his patent.
 
First a lithographer designer, he worked for large companies of illustrated collections: Picturesque views of Italy (1825), printed by Langlumé, for whom he transposed one of Coignet's drawings on stone; Antiquités d'Alsace (1828), printed by Engelmann, which offered him a much more important collaboration since he made some of the sketches transposed on stone by himself or by others like Villeneuve; Picturesque route of the Hudson River and the lateral parts of North America, where he transposes the drawings of Milbert (1828-1829). In 1829, a collection La Seine from its source to the sea, in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Léon Sabatier, began to be executed but did not seem to have been completed. Since 1828, he wanted to obtain a patent for Paris. He was told that a ministerial decision fixed the number of lithograph printers in the capital at 45 and that they were complete. He immediately renewed his request for Sceaux, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis or any other commune in the Seine. He has the support of the mayors of the municipalities cited and he is supported by many personalities (count of Chabrol, marquis de Jaucourt, de Charette ...) He therefore obtains a patent for Saint-Denis on August 1, 1829. From September, he requests the transfer to Paris and, for lack of response, multiplies the reminders in November and December 1829, then in April 1830. It is not surprising that Bichebois sees with a favorable eye the advent of the July monarchy. He participated in the printing of the plates of the History of the Revolution of One thousand eight hundred and thirty adorned with forty lithographs, with full-length portraits of the King, the princes and the main characters, drawn and lithographed from life by Petit. Like others, he prints portraits of political figures or artists, illustrations for newspapers (L'Artiste, La Mode), but his reputation as a landscape designer earned him a call to print plates for large companies such as Voyages picturesques et romantiques dans l'Ancienne France, Souvenirs de Grenade et de l'Alhambra by Girault de Prangey (1836-1837) or Nantes et la Loire-Inférieure (1850), on behalf of the printer Nantes Charpentier.

Jean Victor Adam (28 January 1801 – 30 December 1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Adam was born in Paris in 1801, the son of Jean Adam, an engraver. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1814–18, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited Herminia succouring Tancred. He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, including The Entry of the French into Mainz, The Battle of Varroux, The Taking of Menin, The Battle of Castiglione, The Passage of the Cluse, The Battle of Montebello and The Capitulation of Meiningen the last three in collaboration with Jean Alaux. He continued to exhibit until 1838, his subjects including Henry IV, after the Battle of Coutras, Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri, The Postillion, The Vivandiere, The Road to Poissy, The Return from the Chase, Horse-fair at Caen, and many others. He then disappeared from public view until 1846, when he exhibited some lithographs, dedicating himself to the medium from then on. In this line he produced a lithographic album, Views in the Environs of Paris, Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon, etc. He won a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1867.