Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1789-1790
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:battle history equestrian
Dimensions:Height: 51 centimetres Width: 88.50 centimetres
Description:
Plate 1 in a set of 12 copper-plate engravings of Qianlong’s Formosa campaign (1786-1788). In the foreground, Chinese archers on horseback, also infantry armed with guns; in the distance troops approach a fortification to right, a battle scene in front of it. With poem and seals. Engraved on thin paper.
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Comments:According to Pirazzoli-T’Serstevens, the poems accompanying the engravings are dated 1789 and the engravings with poems was appeared in 1789-1790. Two Court artists, Kia Ts’iuan and Li Ming, produced the original sketches.On the verso of the mount is inscribed in a later hand in ink “Formosa Campaign I”.According to the P&D Register: Four episodes from the ‘Campaign against the Tartars, 1786’ and ‘An emperor giving an audience’.
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:battle history equestrian
Dimensions:Height: 51 centimetres Width: 88.50 centimetres
Description:
Plate 1 in a set of 12 copper-plate engravings of Qianlong’s Formosa campaign (1786-1788). In the foreground, Chinese archers on horseback, also infantry armed with guns; in the distance troops approach a fortification to right, a battle scene in front of it. With poem and seals. Engraved on thin paper.
IMG
Comments:According to Pirazzoli-T’Serstevens, the poems accompanying the engravings are dated 1789 and the engravings with poems was appeared in 1789-1790. Two Court artists, Kia Ts’iuan and Li Ming, produced the original sketches.On the verso of the mount is inscribed in a later hand in ink “Formosa Campaign I”.According to the P&D Register: Four episodes from the ‘Campaign against the Tartars, 1786’ and ‘An emperor giving an audience’.
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