Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:fire
Dimensions:Height: 106 millimetres Width: 162 millimetres
Description:
Fire burning inside a mound, seen through an arched opening; two pots heating up on the top; two men walking on a path at right and a woman at centre, carrying pots; palm trees and buildings in a field 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.96); letterpress on verso; first state. 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:fire
Dimensions:Height: 106 millimetres Width: 162 millimetres
Description:
Fire burning inside a mound, seen through an arched opening; two pots heating up on the top; two men walking on a path at right and a woman at centre, carrying pots; palm trees and buildings in a field 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.96); letterpress on verso; first state. 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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