Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:funeral/funerary rite procession
Dimensions:Height: 102 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Funeral procession, with coffin carried under a canopy, approaching a wall with three gates; figures walking up a steep flight of steps to a chamber cut in a rock behind; roofs of buildings seen behind crenellated wall in background at left; 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.206); letterpress on verso. 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:funeral/funerary rite procession
Dimensions:Height: 102 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Funeral procession, with coffin carried under a canopy, approaching a wall with three gates; figures walking up a steep flight of steps to a chamber cut in a rock behind; roofs of buildings seen behind crenellated wall in background at left; 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.206); letterpress on verso. 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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