Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese tree/bush fruit eating/drinking
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Two Chinese men and two women seated around an open fire in a clearing, under a pal and a jackfruit tree, eating from a cauldron; a third man bringing a jackfruit; cut jackfruits lying under a tree in foreground; forest in background; 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.89); letterpress on verso; first 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.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese tree/bush fruit eating/drinking
Dimensions:Height: 110 millimetres Width: 168 millimetres
Description:
Two Chinese men and two women seated around an open fire in a clearing, under a pal and a jackfruit tree, eating from a cauldron; a third man bringing a jackfruit; cut jackfruits lying under a tree in foreground; forest in background; 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.89); letterpress on verso; first 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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