Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese mammal hunting/shooting
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Two Chinese men standing at left in a room, one of them holding a flag, looking down at a Chinese badger, wearing a collar; monkey behind; stag-hunting scene with badgers seen through the open door; 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, Kircher between pp.88-89); second state. 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:chinese mammal hunting/shooting
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Two Chinese men standing at left in a room, one of them holding a flag, looking down at a Chinese badger, wearing a collar; monkey behind; stag-hunting scene with badgers seen through the open door; 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, Kircher between pp.88-89); second state. Etching
IMG
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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