Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 101 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
View of the walled city of Yangzhou, with boat moored on canal at centre foreground; two figures conversing on the rocky shore in foreground at right, a third holding a parasol above them; illustration cut from Johannes Nieuhof’s ‘An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China’ (London: 1669, p.88); image and letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.225.* for part of image on the verso See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 101 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
View of the walled city of Yangzhou, with boat moored on canal at centre foreground; two figures conversing on the rocky shore in foreground at right, a third holding a parasol above them; illustration cut from Johannes Nieuhof’s ‘An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China’ (London: 1669, p.88); image and letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
IMG
Comments:See 1855,0512.225.* for part of image on the verso See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar.
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