Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 107 millimetres Width: 172 millimetres
Description:
Fife Chinese fowls: two standing on tree stumps, one eating grain, facing another beside a square water container, the fifth perching on the shelf of a bird house 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, Kircher p.92); letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
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Comments:See Q,5.567 for another imrpession.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:bird
Dimensions:Height: 107 millimetres Width: 172 millimetres
Description:
Fife Chinese fowls: two standing on tree stumps, one eating grain, facing another beside a square water container, the fifth perching on the shelf of a bird house 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, Kircher p.92); letterpress on verso; first state. Etching
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Comments:See Q,5.567 for another imrpession.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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