Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:bell
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 160 millimetres
Description:
The bell of Erford at left, the bell of Peking at right, a Chinese man standing behind at centre, and another hitting the bell at right; group of men moving a bell on rollers in middle ground at left, pagoda seen behind; 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, Kircher p.103); letterpress on verso. Etching
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Comments: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:bell
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 160 millimetres
Description:
The bell of Erford at left, the bell of Peking at right, a Chinese man standing behind at centre, and another hitting the bell at right; group of men moving a bell on rollers in middle ground at left, pagoda seen behind; 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, Kircher p.103); letterpress on verso. Etching
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Comments: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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