Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:calligraphy singerie
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 165 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese scribe standing at a table in profile to left, writing on a sheet of paper; monkey sitting nearby on the checkered floor, reading; conical object on tile at left, door behind; shelf with books on the wall; 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, Kircher p.105); letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1850,0223.349 for another impression.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 singerie
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 165 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese scribe standing at a table in profile to left, writing on a sheet of paper; monkey sitting nearby on the checkered floor, reading; conical object on tile at left, door behind; shelf with books on the wall; 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, Kircher p.105); letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1850,0223.349 for another impression.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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