Microfilm and colour slides of sketchbook of Father Leopold Verguet of the Marist Order, 1844-ca.1845

MAV/FM4/10962
MAV/FM5/1440

fonds

1844-ca.1845

Graphic Materials, Photographs

908841

38 slides - colour - 35mm.
1 microfilm reel of graphic materials - positive - 35mm.

"Leopold Verguet left London as a Marist in 1845 with Bishop Epalle for the Pacific. Verguet was present with Epalle at Epalle's murder, and afterwards he worked with Bishop Collomb, accompanying Collomb to Sydney for his consecration, and making the accompanying sketches at that time. Afterwards Verguet had to return to France because of ill-health and he subsequently left the Society and became a Canon of Carcassone. He wrote a history of the foundation of the missions in New Caledonia and the Solomons and also a study of the geography of the Solomons and gained some eminence in France as a scientist. ... The history written by Canon Verguet is referred to on a number of sketches - "Histoire de la Premiere Mission Catholique Au Vicariat de Melanesie" par C. M. Leopold Verguet Missionnaire Apostolique S.M. de 1844-48 published at Carcassone Imprimerie de P. Labau Grand'rue 21, 1854." -- source: photocopy of typescript note, on ML file.

MAV/FM4/10962
Contents list numbering refers to original page numbering in sketchbook. Numbers in square brackets refer to an alternative numbering system written in pencil where sketches have been numbered instead of pages.

Front cover: bookplate ? Malet, relieur, Grand'rue, 34, a-Carcassonne
Inside front cover: inscription
'Album dessine [?] par le P. Verguet'
Fly-leaf: Typescript signed, J. Podevigne, 5 Mars 1964

1. 7 pencil sketches, sailing ships
3. Watercolour; Chien de terre-neuve[?][colour slide held]
4. off-print from 5
5. Pastel, sailing boat near shore [colour slide held]
6-7[1] Pencil; Ville du cap [Cape Town?]
8. Pencil; [another view of Cape Town?]
9.[2] 7 pencil sketches; 5 sailing ships; two portraits - Negre du cap 12 ans, Negre de Mozambique Dunbar [?Durbar?]
10. Pencil; Plan de la ville du cap et de la Baie
11.[4] 2 pencil sketches; 1 watercolour (a) Navigation? device (hour glass, reel, and another object) with notes; (b) branch with fruit = feuilles fanees. Solanum pseudo-Capsicum; (c) coastal profile: Devils hill Table in Lions hill. Indecipherable pencil notes lower right [colour slide held]
12. 2 watercolours: (a) Dapne merereum (b) bruyere [?] Eruea, with pencil note [colour slide held]
13. 6 watercolour, and some pencil sketches of botanical specimens; notes indecipherable [colour slide held]
14. 21 watercolour & pencil drawings of national flags, 20 pencil & watercolour drawings of banners; some flags identified [colour slide held]
15.[5] Pencil; Vue au port de Sydney; Key at left reads "1 deux moulins derriere les quels est situee (en 1845 et) pour le moment la maison de procure dirigee par les peres Dubreuil et Rocher en 1845. 2. fleche du temple protestant derriere ce temple un peu sur la gauche est situee l'eglise cathedrale St. Marie. 3. Maison du gouverneur vue par derriere. d'evant la maison est le jardin de botanique la ville l'etend [?] bien loin derriere cette maison et a gauche. 4. fort 5. chapelle de St. Patrice."
16.[6] 1 Watercolour, some pencil sketches ; (a) Botanical specimen with notes (b) Banxia arbe du bois ... [colour slide held]
17.[7] Watercolour; armoires de Mgr. de Sydney, 1845 [colour slide held]
18. Pencil; Lighthhouse de Sidney vu du cote de la mer v. page 29 au livre
19.[8] Pencil; Lighthouse (phare[?]) Vu par devant du cote de Sidney; notes at lower centre
20.[9] Pencil; Cotes de la Nlle. hollande au port Jackson page 29 or 29[?]
21.[10] 2 pencil; (a) Entree du port Jackson page 29 du livre et p.29 (b) Signal p[?] les pylotes[?]; crossed out another title reads tombe d'un pere francais
22.[11] Pencil; Sidney vu du Lighthouse
23.[12, 13] 2 Pencil; (a) this obelisk ... Macquarie Place ... [transcription of engraving, and list of principal roads] Voy. p.32 du livre (b) erige a la memoire d'Allen Cunningham 1844 ... Voy. p.33 de livre
24.[14] Pencil; ecurie vis-a-vis-la maison du gouverneur Sydney ... Voy. p.30 du livre
25.[15] Pencil & ink; Bourke's statue with transcription of engraving Voy. p.31 du livre. Ink profile at upper right
26.[16] Pencil; Cathedrale [-?] Marie 29 Aug 1845 Voy. p.33 du livre
27.[17] Pencil; another view of Cathedral, 29 Aout 1845 v.p.33
28. Pencil; St. Patrick's Church? voy.p.34
29. 2 Pencil; (a) St. James Church? (b) another view of St. James. Voy. p.34
30.[18] Pencil; future Bibliotheque Sept. 1845 Voy.p.33 du livre
31.[19] Pencil; fort Macquarie Voy. p.30 du livre
32-33.[20] Pencil; Vue du fort Macquarie Voy.p.30 du livre
34.[21] Pencil; Government house Voy. page 30 du livre
35. Pencil; another view of Government House v.p.30
36.[22] Pencil; La Perouse monument, with transcription and notes. v.p.49 du livre
37.[23] 2 pencil sketches (a) Vue de la cote de la Nlle. Caledonie ... voy. p.63 (b) Vue de la maison de Mgr. D'amata [?] ... Goa au port Balade Voy. p.64 au livre
38. Pencil; "Vue generale de l'etablisement [?] de la mission catholique au port balade en Caledonie. le vaisseau L[-?]ett l'anire a environ 1/4 de lieue de la cote vis ave [?] la montague du milieu [anchor symbol?] 1.emplacement du 1er. etablissment 2 etablissement ou reside Mgr. d'amata il [?] sa compois d'une maison, la chapelle a gauche Lecuine [?] a d'[-?]une butte de naturelle par devant 3. embouchou de la riviere. Voy p.64"
39.[24] Pencil; "No.1 premier habitation de Mgr. d'amata - a.ruines de la maison b.ecuries c.remise d.fruits et jardin e.four. Voy page 63 du livre 1er. min [?]"
40.[25] Pencil sketches; (a) Nlle Caledonie ... [pencil note too faint to decipher] (b) pirogue Voy. p.71
41.[26] 10 pencil sketches; implements, etc. Nlle Caledonie
42.[27] 2 ink maps, 2 coastal profiles (a) port St. Jean - Baptiste (b) I. Chistoval, with notes, lat. and long. readings and scale [colour slide held]
43.[28] 4 pencil sketches (a) San Christoval vue de la cote prisa a 4 miles de distance (b & c) natives in canoes (d) Kiokia [weapons?]
44.[29] Pencil; portrait d'Oneatare (arossien)
45.[30] Pencil; palmier en fruit
46.[31] Watercolour; haha peigne [?]
47.[32] Pencil; amosi ani caoux [with pencilled ntoes]
48.[33, 34] 2 watercolour; Melanesiens de la Tribu Loucou a la pointe Nore [?] de San - Christoval with translations and names Taou, Soulessi [colour slide held]
49.[35, 36] 2 pencil; Tribu de Wasinpareo port St. Marie a San Christoval Hanga Aririva
50.[37] 2 pencil; botanical, pua arec p. betel fruit du pua
51. Pencil diagram; montre a soleil pour le 10[degrees] 31 latitude
52.[38] Pencil; mahemara mara one portrait de mahemaro roi de Une il est tres rysemblant [?]
53.[39, 40, 41] 2 pencil, 1 watercolour; (a) Mahemahe (b) riku (c) kokemate [colour slide held]
54.[42] Watercolour; bird navaagui [?] [colour slide held]
55.[43] 1 watercolor, 1 pencil; (a) bird tiui (b) detail of wing with notes re colours [colour slide held]
56.[44] 1 watercolour, 4 pencil sketches; (a) pirogue Ora ... (b-e) details of carvings on canoe, all named. [colour slide held]
57.[45] Pencil; Tarou - Lapo - (Lao) - plat en usage au festin du Taouma, with descriptive notes
58.[46] Watercolour & pencil; unidentified bird, same as on facing page?[colour slide held]
59.[47] 1 Watercolour, 1 pencil; (a) bird Kirao (b) de souvenir pigeon [colour slide held]
60.[48] Watercolour; bird merle ? nauje [?] [colour slide held]
61.[49] Watercolour; bird grive ? [colour slide held]
62.[50] 2 watercolours; 3 pencil details of flower; taritar, pencil notes near pencil sketches [colour slide held]
63.[51] Pencil & watercolour; Ahou, flower & details in pencil with notes [colour slide held]
64.[52] Watercolour; botanical drawing lort de zenairen [?] [colour slide held]
65.[53] Watercolour; insect ? on leaf nuiamuaeru [colour slide held]
66.[54] Watercolour; bird Kira Karo, pencilled notes round sketch [colour slide held]
67. Pencil design
68.[55] Watercolour; portrait de Sourimahe, translation notes on sketch [colour slide held]
69.[56] Pencil; woman in canoe Yaronia conduisant [?] sa pirogue Etea v. p.138, translation notes on sketch.
70.[57] Watercolour; men in beached canoe Solima [colour slide held]
71. Pencil & watercolour; 20 flags ? Bloson [colour slide held]
73.[58] Pencil & watercolour; bird nai feriferi [colour slide held]
74-75.[59] Pencil & watercolour; 5 articles of dress ? Paeto bracelet de bras ; ... bracelet ourou-rima main ; ... ourou ceinture de la taille ; Ilavai - dijque du front; ararete pendant d'oreille [colour slides held]
76. Pencil; Dessin du plan d'un jardin imagine par le frere Charles
77.[60] Watercolour, 2 portraits naturels de Waitaou Iles du centre archipel Fidji, with notes
78. Pencil; main tatouee
79.[61] Pencil & watercolour; un muvien de Noura (marquises)
80.[62] Pencil; femme de Nlle Zelande
81.[63] Pencil; habitants du Cap Horn (amerique sud) a la terre de feu sur les rives du detroit de Magellan
82.[64] Pencil; masque Nlle Caledonie
82-83. Pencil; Masque de Nlle Caledonie d'apre nature
84.[65] Watercolour & pencil; (a) design [-?] sur le bois (b) forme du plat sculpte (c) tatouage du menton Nlle Zelande
85.[66] 3 ink sketches; (a) armes de Mgr. J. B. Epalle ; (b) armes de Mr. Georges Collomb ... (c) Mgr. Viard ?
86.[67] 3 pencil sketches; Etude de tatouages en Nlle Zelande
87.[68] Pencil & watercolour; studies of Maori chin tatooing [colour slide held]
88.[69] Pencil & watercolour; J. Marquises - Guerrier ... [colour slide held]
89.[70] Pencil & watercolour; Taouma [-?] repas [?] du ponding [?] d'apres nature [colour slide held]
90.[71] Pencil & watercolour; portrait Ouirimi ... d'apres nature
91.[72] 2 pencil; portraits, studies of tattooing front d'apres nature
92.[73-74] 2 pencil portraits; Nlle Zelande Kaperiere hiperiana ...
93.[75, 76] 2 watercolour & pencil portraits; Nlle Zelande liberata riperala valoita oualoita [colour slide held]
94.[77] Watercolour portrait; Nlle Zelande d'apres nature [colour slide held]
95.[78] Pencil; Portrait de Heouna - Nlle Zelande d'apres nature, with notes
96.[79] Pencil; Portrait d'Anateite Nlle Zelande
97.[80] 1 Pencil & 2 watercolour; studies of Maori tattooing [colour slide held]
98.[81] 4 pencil, (a) pirogue (b) plat ... (c-d) Studies of carving
99.[82] Pencil; Repa chef des maoris contre les anglais d'apres nature
100.[83] 5 pencil; studies of canoe & paddle carvings d'apres nature
101. 6 pencil; studies of weapons etc. armes de tonga ...
102. Pencil; unfinished, gourd?

Inside back cover; inscription: Cet album est souille de taches et cest pour lui un titre qui rehausse le prix. Il a ete pendant un mois entre les mains des sauvages de la Nouvelle Caledonie en juillet 1847 apres le pillage de la maison de Baiao. [Signed] L. Verguet ... 1881

MAV/FM5/1440
38 35mm. colour slides of pages as indicated above:
pp.3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 42, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 87, 88, 89, 93, 94, 97

Microfilm frame numbers do not correlate with sketchbook page numbers, e.g. inside front cover: frame no.3; fly-leaf: frame no.4; sketchbook p.1: frame no.5; pp.6-7: frame no.8; pp.74-75, frame no.72.¶¶With the microfilm frame numbers, the original page numbering in the sketchbook, and the alternative numbering system (indicated by numbers in square brackets) where sketches have been numbered instead of pages, three number sequences apply to the sketchbook.¶¶Contents list compiled from original album by ML staff in 1983

Rights and Restrictions Information:: Permission for publication in any manner or form needs to be obtained from the Marist Fathers in Rome. Address: Padri Maristi<br>Via Alessandro Poerio, 63<br>00152 Roma<br>

Original held at Marist Archives, Rome