Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese peasant/villager spinner/spinning
Dimensions:Height: 108 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese woman spinning, conversing with another; a Chinese man standing at right with his back turned towards the viewer, holding a spear; an old man sitting on the ground, holding a fan; another man with a parasol walking away at far left; building and flag on pole at right; 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.212); another illustration on verso; 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:chinese peasant/villager spinner/spinning
Dimensions:Height: 108 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese woman spinning, conversing with another; a Chinese man standing at right with his back turned towards the viewer, holding a spear; an old man sitting on the ground, holding a fan; another man with a parasol walking away at far left; building and flag on pole at right; 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.212); another illustration on verso; 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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