Period:Unknown Production date:1669
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:tartar tent/encampment
Dimensions:Height: 101 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 166 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Three Tartarian women standing on a hillock in foreground, the one at left carrying a basket, the one at centre holding a fan; two figures kneeling in prayer in front of a dead bear, hanging upside down, fastened to trees; settlement of tents nearby; 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.270); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.276 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:tartar tent/encampment
Dimensions:Height: 101 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 166 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Three Tartarian women standing on a hillock in foreground, the one at left carrying a basket, the one at centre holding a fan; two figures kneeling in prayer in front of a dead bear, hanging upside down, fastened to trees; settlement of tents nearby; 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.270); first state. Etching
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Comments:See 1855,0512.276 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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