Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 52 millimetres Width: 48 millimetres
Description:
Capital letter ‘T’, with a figure kneeling before a Chinese emperor, seated at left; another figure lying on his stomach in front of an altar with burning sacrifice in background; 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.1); 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:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 52 millimetres Width: 48 millimetres
Description:
Capital letter ‘T’, with a figure kneeling before a Chinese emperor, seated at left; another figure lying on his stomach in front of an altar with burning sacrifice in background; 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.1); 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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