Period:Unknown Production date:19thC(late)-20thC(early) (?)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden palace/mansion
Dimensions:Height: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 270 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Image composed of two woodblocks, from a set of nine images: reduced and amended version of a plate from the series of thirty-six prints by Matteo Ripa, ‘Thirty-six views of the Imperial Summer Palace at Jehol’; view with large hills and a valley, trees, and a rock formation; a pavilion at the top of one hill, and further down, two buildings just visible; in the foreground, two pools of water (?) separated by a thin strip of land with a bridge; rocky landscape in the distance. Woodblock print on two sheets of oriental paper, conjoined
IMG
![图片[1]-print BM-1991-0325-0.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00575767_001.jpg)
Comments:The plate it is a version of in the BM Ripa set is 1955,0212,0.1.25. The woodcuts were possibly taken from a book. An almost complete set of the original Ripa prints (1955,0212,0.1 to 34), bound in an volume, is in the Department of Asia, as well as two loose prints (1968,0212,0.27 and 28) from another set, kept in that volume, and completing the series. For more information on the original series, see Curator’s Comment for 1955,0212,0.1.1. These are Japanese reprints taken from Omura Seigai’s reprint of 熱河三十六景詩圖 / Rehe san shi liu jing shi tu, 康熙, Emperor of China, 1654-1722. [清聖祖詠詩 ; 沈喻繪圖] ; 大村西崖校輯. 大村西崖, ; Yu Shen; Seigai Ōmura. Publisher: 圖本叢刋會, Tōkyō : Zuhon Sōkankai, Taishō 12 [1923]. Series: Zuhon sōkan, v. 2. (Feedback email from Christer von der Burg, 23 April 2014)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden palace/mansion
Dimensions:Height: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 270 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Image composed of two woodblocks, from a set of nine images: reduced and amended version of a plate from the series of thirty-six prints by Matteo Ripa, ‘Thirty-six views of the Imperial Summer Palace at Jehol’; view with large hills and a valley, trees, and a rock formation; a pavilion at the top of one hill, and further down, two buildings just visible; in the foreground, two pools of water (?) separated by a thin strip of land with a bridge; rocky landscape in the distance. Woodblock print on two sheets of oriental paper, conjoined
IMG
Comments:The plate it is a version of in the BM Ripa set is 1955,0212,0.1.25. The woodcuts were possibly taken from a book. An almost complete set of the original Ripa prints (1955,0212,0.1 to 34), bound in an volume, is in the Department of Asia, as well as two loose prints (1968,0212,0.27 and 28) from another set, kept in that volume, and completing the series. For more information on the original series, see Curator’s Comment for 1955,0212,0.1.1. These are Japanese reprints taken from Omura Seigai’s reprint of 熱河三十六景詩圖 / Rehe san shi liu jing shi tu, 康熙, Emperor of China, 1654-1722. [清聖祖詠詩 ; 沈喻繪圖] ; 大村西崖校輯. 大村西崖, ; Yu Shen; Seigai Ōmura. Publisher: 圖本叢刋會, Tōkyō : Zuhon Sōkankai, Taishō 12 [1923]. Series: Zuhon sōkan, v. 2. (Feedback email from Christer von der Burg, 23 April 2014)
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