Period:Unknown Production date:1797
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching
Dimensions:Height: 323 millimetres (trimmed?) Width: 250 millimetres (trimmed?)
Description:
Portrait of Wang Wenxiong (王文雄) a military officer who attended the embassy shown full-length directed to right, left hand on his sword-hilt, right holding his bow at his side, with a quiver slung across his chest, wearing a decorated jacket, tunic, soft boot s and plumed cap, with boats on a river and a distant mountain in the background to left; etched state. 1797 Soft-ground etching
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![图片[1]-print BM-1913-0509.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00768934_001.jpg)
Comments:See 1899,0713.77.The identification of the sitter was provided by Professor Henrietta Harrison (email 7 October 2013) who points out that ‘Ta-Zhin’, now written daren, is a title that means, roughly, sir.
Materials:paper
Technique:soft-ground etching
Dimensions:Height: 323 millimetres (trimmed?) Width: 250 millimetres (trimmed?)
Description:
Portrait of Wang Wenxiong (王文雄) a military officer who attended the embassy shown full-length directed to right, left hand on his sword-hilt, right holding his bow at his side, with a quiver slung across his chest, wearing a decorated jacket, tunic, soft boot s and plumed cap, with boats on a river and a distant mountain in the background to left; etched state. 1797 Soft-ground etching
IMG
Comments:See 1899,0713.77.The identification of the sitter was provided by Professor Henrietta Harrison (email 7 October 2013) who points out that ‘Ta-Zhin’, now written daren, is a title that means, roughly, sir.
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