Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:boat/ship fisherman/fishing bird pagoda
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
View of the walled city of Shaozhou from the sea, with two boats in foreground, the one at left a fishing boat with cormorants; pagoda on small island at right; 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.53); 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:boat/ship fisherman/fishing bird pagoda
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
View of the walled city of Shaozhou from the sea, with two boats in foreground, the one at left a fishing boat with cormorants; pagoda on small island at right; 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.53); letterpress on verso. 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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