Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:palace/mansion soldier ambassador
Dimensions:Height: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 300 millimetres
Description:
Inner court of the Emperor’s palace at Peking, seen from a height, with ambassadors kneeling and standing at centre foreground, supervised by a herald, and figures tending to twelve horses behind, facing one another in two lines; guards lined up on three sides in front of the buildings; 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, p.126); second or third state. Etching
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![图片[1]-print; book-illustration BM-1867-1012.555-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_ppa394413.jpg)
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:palace/mansion soldier ambassador
Dimensions:Height: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 300 millimetres
Description:
Inner court of the Emperor’s palace at Peking, seen from a height, with ambassadors kneeling and standing at centre foreground, supervised by a herald, and figures tending to twelve horses behind, facing one another in two lines; guards lined up on three sides in front of the buildings; 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, p.126); second or third 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.
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