Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese
Dimensions:Height: 99 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 153 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
The old Viceroy of Canton seated cress-legged to front on a carpeted platform; officials seated in a row behind; three standing figures conversing at left; 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.45). Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.196 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:chinese
Dimensions:Height: 99 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 153 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
The old Viceroy of Canton seated cress-legged to front on a carpeted platform; officials seated in a row behind; three standing figures conversing at left; 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.45). Etching
IMG
Comments:See 1855,0512.196 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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