Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (circa)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 95 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
Chinese woman walking barefoot from right to left across a room towards the sculpted busts of two Kings of Tanguth, Han (at right) and Deva (at left); three oil lamps burning above; 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, Figures V and VI); letterpress on verso. Etching
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![图片[1]-print; costume print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.285-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_ppa72972.jpg)
Comments:Many illustrations in Nieuhof’s book were made by Hollar, see New Hollstein 2038-2112.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 95 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 170 millimetres
Description:
Chinese woman walking barefoot from right to left across a room towards the sculpted busts of two Kings of Tanguth, Han (at right) and Deva (at left); three oil lamps burning above; 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, Figures V and VI); letterpress on verso. Etching
IMG
Comments:Many illustrations in Nieuhof’s book were made by Hollar, see New Hollstein 2038-2112.
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