Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Dimensions:Height: 103 millimetres (Faesan) Height: 102 millimetres (Namhvng) Width: 159 millimetres (Faesan) Width: 160 millimetres (Namhvng)
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, pp.141-2): ‘Namhvng’: View of a city behind wall at the foot of mountain, with a tower to right, seen across a river, two travellers conversing along a path in the left foreground. ‘Faesan’: View of a town on a river, with two boats in the foreground, two palm trees in the right middle distance. Etching with letterpress
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Comments:See comment for 1855,0512.225.+
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Dimensions:Height: 103 millimetres (Faesan) Height: 102 millimetres (Namhvng) Width: 159 millimetres (Faesan) Width: 160 millimetres (Namhvng)
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, pp.141-2): ‘Namhvng’: View of a city behind wall at the foot of mountain, with a tower to right, seen across a river, two travellers conversing along a path in the left foreground. ‘Faesan’: View of a town on a river, with two boats in the foreground, two palm trees in the right middle distance. Etching with letterpress
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Comments:See comment for 1855,0512.225.+
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