Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:tree/bush fruit
Dimensions:Height: 108 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
Banana tree in foreground at left, pineapple plant at right, growing among other plants on the shore of a lake or river; 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, p.257); 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:tree/bush fruit
Dimensions:Height: 108 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
Banana tree in foreground at left, pineapple plant at right, growing among other plants on the shore of a lake or river; 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, p.257); 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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