Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:bird punting
Dimensions:Height: 103 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 162 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Cormorant standing on a shore in profile to right, with head turned up, looking towards the sky; figures punting boats on a river behind; pagoda and high rock formations seen on the opposite bank; 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.99); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.231 for another imrpession.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:bird punting
Dimensions:Height: 103 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 162 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Cormorant standing on a shore in profile to right, with head turned up, looking towards the sky; figures punting boats on a river behind; pagoda and high rock formations seen on the opposite bank; 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.99); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.231 for another imrpession.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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