Period:Unknown Production date:1772
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Subjects:battle
Dimensions:Height: 580 millimetres Width: 920 millimetres
Description:
Plate 12 from a set of from a set of sixteen plates; battle scene with Qing mounted archers galloping across the foreground; in the middle ground to right, Qing cavalry, led by an officer, wait while their soldiers fire cannon and exchange gunfire with the enemy on the other bank of a river; to left, Turkic Muslims, some with livestock, flee across another branch of the river; all around scenes of fighting in mountainous landscape. 1772 Etching and engraving
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Comments:Plate 12 is often titled in modern literature: The Battle at Yesil-Kol-Nor; Le combat de Yesil-Kol-Nor. None of the plates in the original edition was ever lettered with a title.This print is from an incomplete BM set (fifteen only, 1932,0715.46 to 59, including 48*) of the sixteen plates known as ‘Victoires et Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine’ commemorating the Qianlong Emperor’s victories in Central Asia from 1755 to1759. (For a complete set see 1848,0205, 517 to 532).For further information, see the Curator’s Comment for 1932,0715.57.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Subjects:battle
Dimensions:Height: 580 millimetres Width: 920 millimetres
Description:
Plate 12 from a set of from a set of sixteen plates; battle scene with Qing mounted archers galloping across the foreground; in the middle ground to right, Qing cavalry, led by an officer, wait while their soldiers fire cannon and exchange gunfire with the enemy on the other bank of a river; to left, Turkic Muslims, some with livestock, flee across another branch of the river; all around scenes of fighting in mountainous landscape. 1772 Etching and engraving
IMG
Comments:Plate 12 is often titled in modern literature: The Battle at Yesil-Kol-Nor; Le combat de Yesil-Kol-Nor. None of the plates in the original edition was ever lettered with a title.This print is from an incomplete BM set (fifteen only, 1932,0715.46 to 59, including 48*) of the sixteen plates known as ‘Victoires et Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine’ commemorating the Qianlong Emperor’s victories in Central Asia from 1755 to1759. (For a complete set see 1848,0205, 517 to 532).For further information, see the Curator’s Comment for 1932,0715.57.
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