print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.237

Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:pagoda boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 100 millimetres (recto) Height: 102 millimetres (verso) Width: 170 millimetres (recto) Width: 170 millimetres (verso)

Description:
View in present-day Cangzhou, with junk travelling on a river in foreground; figures walking and riding along a road on the right bank; buildings and long bridge in background; verso showing a view of Tianjin, with several boats travelling on a river, and people walking along roads on both banks; illustrations 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, pp.111 and 112). Etching
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图片[1]-print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.237-China Archive

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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