Botanical Ink Wash Drawings, Jacques AragoBack to Gallery

The Banda Islands.

(Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140km south of Seram island and about 2000km east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name. They rise out of 4-6 km deep ocean and have a total land area of approximately 180 km². They have a population of about 15,000. Until the mid 19th century the Banda Islands were the world's only source of the spices nutmeg and mace, produced from the nutmeg tree.....

Jacques Victor Etienne Arago. (Jacques Arago).
(Estagel 1790-Brasil 1855).

Travel around the world 1817-1821, La Uranie-La Physicienne.

# ¿?. Unidentified.

Unpublished.

Signed & dated 1818. Js. Arago, fecit 1818./…..Fecit : (he made it).

Histoire Naturelle.
Iles Moluques/Pisang, 1818./ (Moluccans islands, Spice islands).
Approuve par mmrs les Naturalistes.

Ink wash drawing.

37 x 28,50 centimeters.
14, 06 x 11,01 inches.

Damages caused by the shipwreck in the Falkland Islands the 15 February 1,820

Detail.