Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:scientific instrument chinese costume
Dimensions:Height: 308 millimetres Width: 213 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of Adam Schalinger, whole length, standing slightly to left at a table, looking towards the viewer, derssed in ornate Chinese robe and hat, holding a pair of compasses in his right hand on top of an armillary sphere, and a sextant in his left hand; globe and large book on floor, map and instruments on wall behind at left, shelves of books at right; 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, Kircher between pp.68-69); second 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:scientific instrument chinese costume
Dimensions:Height: 308 millimetres Width: 213 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of Adam Schalinger, whole length, standing slightly to left at a table, looking towards the viewer, derssed in ornate Chinese robe and hat, holding a pair of compasses in his right hand on top of an armillary sphere, and a sextant in his left hand; globe and large book on floor, map and instruments on wall behind at left, shelves of books at right; 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, Kircher between pp.68-69); second 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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