Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:tartar arms/armour
Dimensions:Height: 104 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 161 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
A Tartarian man standing in profile to left, shooting with a bow and arrow, another at centre leaning on a staff, turning towards the third, carrying a bow; figures and houses in middle ground, walled city in background; 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, p.270); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.276 for another impression.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:tartar arms/armour
Dimensions:Height: 104 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 161 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
A Tartarian man standing in profile to left, shooting with a bow and arrow, another at centre leaning on a staff, turning towards the third, carrying a bow; figures and houses in middle ground, walled city in background; 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, p.270); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.276 for another impression.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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