Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Subjects:architecture
Dimensions:Height: 100 millimetres (A view of the city wall) Height: 101 millimetres (Xantsin) Width: 145 millimetres (A view of the city wall) Width: 159 millimetres (Xantsin)
Description:
Two illustrations 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, page unknown): ‘Xantsin’: View of the city gate of Sanshui in distance, seen across a clearing, with two travellers conversing in wood in the left foreground, four others resting to right. A view of the city wall, seen from riverbank where five men tow a boat. Etching with letterpress
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![图片[1]-print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.198-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_ppa393527_rec.jpg)
![图片[2]-print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.198-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_ppa393527_ver.jpg)
Comments:See comment for 1855,0512.225.+
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Subjects:architecture
Dimensions:Height: 100 millimetres (A view of the city wall) Height: 101 millimetres (Xantsin) Width: 145 millimetres (A view of the city wall) Width: 159 millimetres (Xantsin)
Description:
Two illustrations 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, page unknown): ‘Xantsin’: View of the city gate of Sanshui in distance, seen across a clearing, with two travellers conversing in wood in the left foreground, four others resting to right. A view of the city wall, seen from riverbank where five men tow a boat. Etching with letterpress
IMG
Comments:See comment for 1855,0512.225.+
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