Period:Unknown Production date:1711-1713
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion landscape
Dimensions:Height: 378 millimetres (album covers) Height: 317 millimetres (paper sheet) Width: 40.80 millimetres (album covers) Width: 347 millimetres (paper sheet)
Description:
Plate from a set of thirty-six prints, bound in a album; view with a lake or river; tall hills or mountains beyond; to left, a tall rocky outcrop overhangs a pavilion built on a platform on the water; water plants near the shore and fish visible beneath the water’s surface; to right, uneven ground with trees; rocky landscape and a flock of birds in the sky in the distance. Engraving on very thin China paper
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Comments:Published in The Printed Image of China (2010)Father Matteo Ripa was an Italian missionary who worked as an artist at the Qing imperial court. He introduced the technique of copperplate engraving to China for pictorial representations and maps. ‘The Mountain Villa to Escape the Heat’ (Bishushanzhuang) was the name give by the Kangxi emperor to a summer palace complex at Rehe (Jehol), now Chengde in Hebei province. This imperial resort, located north east of Beijing beyond the Great Wall, included palace buildings and temples set in a park surrounded by hills. In 1711, before his sixtieth birthday in 1713, the Kangxi emperor composed poems on his favourite thirty-six scenic views of the palace complex and ordered the court artist Shen Yu to paint them. Two sets of prints were produced after the paintings – one in woodcut, the other by Ripa in copperplate engraving – and were combined with imperial poems and other texts. The engraved views are generally more detailed than the woodcut versions, as seen for example in the treatment of the skies and water expanses. The British Museum’s volume does not include the poems and other texts, although most of the prints are inscribed (below the image), probably by Ripa himself, in Chinese transliteration and in Italian.
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion landscape
Dimensions:Height: 378 millimetres (album covers) Height: 317 millimetres (paper sheet) Width: 40.80 millimetres (album covers) Width: 347 millimetres (paper sheet)
Description:
Plate from a set of thirty-six prints, bound in a album; view with a lake or river; tall hills or mountains beyond; to left, a tall rocky outcrop overhangs a pavilion built on a platform on the water; water plants near the shore and fish visible beneath the water’s surface; to right, uneven ground with trees; rocky landscape and a flock of birds in the sky in the distance. Engraving on very thin China paper
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Comments:Published in The Printed Image of China (2010)Father Matteo Ripa was an Italian missionary who worked as an artist at the Qing imperial court. He introduced the technique of copperplate engraving to China for pictorial representations and maps. ‘The Mountain Villa to Escape the Heat’ (Bishushanzhuang) was the name give by the Kangxi emperor to a summer palace complex at Rehe (Jehol), now Chengde in Hebei province. This imperial resort, located north east of Beijing beyond the Great Wall, included palace buildings and temples set in a park surrounded by hills. In 1711, before his sixtieth birthday in 1713, the Kangxi emperor composed poems on his favourite thirty-six scenic views of the palace complex and ordered the court artist Shen Yu to paint them. Two sets of prints were produced after the paintings – one in woodcut, the other by Ripa in copperplate engraving – and were combined with imperial poems and other texts. The engraved views are generally more detailed than the woodcut versions, as seen for example in the treatment of the skies and water expanses. The British Museum’s volume does not include the poems and other texts, although most of the prints are inscribed (below the image), probably by Ripa himself, in Chinese transliteration and in Italian.
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