File:'Femme dansant, Iles Sandwich' by Jacques Arago, published 1840.jpg

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Nicolas Eustache Maurin (1799–1850)
Alternative names	Nicolas-Eustache Maurin; Nicolas Maurin
Description	French painter, engraver and lithographer brother of Antoine Maurin
Date of birth/death	6 March 1799	1850
Location of birth/death	Perpignan	Paris
Work period	1814 –1850
Work location	Paris
Authority file	: Q3339954 VIAF: 61728556 ISNI: 0000000077301865 ULAN: 500016190 LCCN: nr94018861 NLA: 35038211 WorldCat



Alternative names	legal name: Jacques Étienne Victor Arago
Description	French writer, playwright, cartoonist, explorer, novelist and memoirist
Date of birth/death	10 March 1790	27 November 1855
Location of birth/death	Estagel	Rio de Janeiro
Authority file	: Q117913 VIAF: 17281333 ISNI: 0000000080963691 ULAN: 500116916 LCCN: no89018685 NLA: 36050316 WorldCat

Description

English: Iles Sandwich, femme de l'ile Mowi dansant (Female dancer, Maui, Sandwich Islands) depicted by Jacques Arago who was the artist abroad the ship Uranie under Louis de Freycinet. From Jacques Arago's rare account of Freycinet's travels around the world from 1817 to 1820. First published in 1822, Arago's account met with much success. This plate is newly drawn by N. Maurin after the orginal sketchbook by Jacques Arago, who had become blind.

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drawn 1819

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lithograph

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http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/19422/Femme_dansant_Iles_Sandwich/Arago-Maurin%20.html

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current	06:36, 2 June 2014	843 × 1,280 (1.27 MB)	KAVEBEAR (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 08:11, 6 September 2012
	08:15, 6 September 2012	804 × 956 (1,018 KB)	Cropbot (talk \| contribs)	upload cropped version, operated by User:McZusatz. Summary: some more cropping (revert if you dont like)
	08:11, 6 September 2012	843 × 1,280 (1.27 MB)	Cropbot (talk \| contribs)	upload cropped version, operated by User:McZusatz. Summary: cropped
	08:07, 6 September 2012	881 × 1,312 (1.23 MB)	McZusatz (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 23:36, 28 October 2011 (trying to do a lossless crop with cropbot)
	05:23, 6 September 2012	862 × 1,286 (373 KB)	Hic et nunc (talk \| contribs)	cropped to remove the border
	23:36, 28 October 2011	881 × 1,312 (1.23 MB)	KAVEBEAR (talk \| contribs)	better version
	01:04, 11 July 2011	555 × 928 (75 KB)	KAVEBEAR (talk \| contribs)	== Summary == {{Information \|Description={{en\|1=''Danse des hommes dans les iles Sandwich (Dance of the men in the Sandwich Islands)'' depicted by Louis Choris, the artist aboard the Russian ship ''Rurick'', which visited Hawai'i in 1816.}} \|Source=http:/