Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:plant
Dimensions:Height: 104 millimetres Width: 163 millimetres
Description:
Plant with pointed leaves, berries and large rhizome growing on a hill in foreground; river below, pagoda and other buildings on the opposite bank at the foot of cliffs; letterpress on verso; illustration to 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.245). 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. See also New Hollstein (Hollar) R229-230
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:plant
Dimensions:Height: 104 millimetres Width: 163 millimetres
Description:
Plant with pointed leaves, berries and large rhizome growing on a hill in foreground; river below, pagoda and other buildings on the opposite bank at the foot of cliffs; letterpress on verso; illustration to 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.245). 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. See also New Hollstein (Hollar) R229-230
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