print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.274

Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:mammal bird camel elephant
Dimensions:Height: 102 millimetres (recto) Height: 106 millimetres (verso) Width: 170 millimetres (recto) Width: 162 millimetres (verso)

Description:
Rhinoceros standing in profile to right, rabbits grazing at its hind legs; sheep lying under a tree at left, large bird at centre, cow licking salt from a bag at right; verso showing in middle ground a male elephant standing at left, camel at right, three goats nearby, and two stags in foreground at right; lake and mountains in background; illustrations 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, pp.267 and 268); first states. 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.