Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:calligraphy prayer religious object sacrifice
Dimensions:Height: 47 millimetres Width: 47 millimetres
Description:
Capital initial letter ‘I’; a man kneeling behind, worshipping the statue of an idol at right; another man bringing offering on a plate to an altar, on which incense is burning beside a pile of heads; 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 p.1); 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:calligraphy prayer religious object sacrifice
Dimensions:Height: 47 millimetres Width: 47 millimetres
Description:
Capital initial letter ‘I’; a man kneeling behind, worshipping the statue of an idol at right; another man bringing offering on a plate to an altar, on which incense is burning beside a pile of heads; 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 p.1); 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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