Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1783-1786 (circa)
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion formal garden
Dimensions:Height: 50.50 centimetres (trimmed) Width: 87.50 centimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Main façade of Belvedere; Plate 8 from a set of twenty engravings. View of the façade with a staircase on either side leading up to the first storey; a broad paved path leading up to the Belvedere from the front, flanked by balustrades; to left a pavilion and to right a small viewing platform, set amidst topiary and a few taller trees; at the back, behind the perimeter wall, dense tree foliage. Engraving in an album; inscribed and numbered.
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![图片[1]-print; album BM-1924-0523-0.13-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_P2250233.jpg)
Comments:The full set comprises twenty copper-plate engravings of the European Palaces (Xiyanglou 西洋樓) of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園), thirteen of which are included in this album. The thirteen BM prints are mounted in moiré silk in a linked album with wooden covers, and are from two separate Registration series: 1916,0214,0.1 to 1916,0214,0.4 and 1924,0523,0.13 to 1924.0523,0.21.For further information, see 1916,0214,0.1.
Materials:paper
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion formal garden
Dimensions:Height: 50.50 centimetres (trimmed) Width: 87.50 centimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Main façade of Belvedere; Plate 8 from a set of twenty engravings. View of the façade with a staircase on either side leading up to the first storey; a broad paved path leading up to the Belvedere from the front, flanked by balustrades; to left a pavilion and to right a small viewing platform, set amidst topiary and a few taller trees; at the back, behind the perimeter wall, dense tree foliage. Engraving in an album; inscribed and numbered.
IMG
Comments:The full set comprises twenty copper-plate engravings of the European Palaces (Xiyanglou 西洋樓) of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園), thirteen of which are included in this album. The thirteen BM prints are mounted in moiré silk in a linked album with wooden covers, and are from two separate Registration series: 1916,0214,0.1 to 1916,0214,0.4 and 1924,0523,0.13 to 1924.0523,0.21.For further information, see 1916,0214,0.1.
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
