Period:Unknown Production date:1669-1673
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese costume cleric virgin and child
Dimensions:Height: 301 millimetres Width: 215 millimetres
Description:
Matteo Ricci standing at left with hand raised towards Xu Guangqi both holding fans, their backs turned towards an altar, covered with cloth lettered with “ihs” monogram, on which stands a crucifix; picture of the Virgin and Child and hangings with Chinese characters on the wall behind; tablets above the figures; 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: 1673); second state Etching
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![图片[1]-print; book-illustration BM-1855-0512.296-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_ppa452862.jpg)
Comments:According to Pennington, the lettering “Ly Paulus” is an error, the name should be Xu Guangqi (Hsü Kuang-ch’i). Image copied from Athanasius Kircher’s “China Monumentalis Illustrata”, (Amsterdam, 1667), between pp. 70-71.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 costume cleric virgin and child
Dimensions:Height: 301 millimetres Width: 215 millimetres
Description:
Matteo Ricci standing at left with hand raised towards Xu Guangqi both holding fans, their backs turned towards an altar, covered with cloth lettered with “ihs” monogram, on which stands a crucifix; picture of the Virgin and Child and hangings with Chinese characters on the wall behind; tablets above the figures; 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: 1673); second state Etching
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Comments:According to Pennington, the lettering “Ly Paulus” is an error, the name should be Xu Guangqi (Hsü Kuang-ch’i). Image copied from Athanasius Kircher’s “China Monumentalis Illustrata”, (Amsterdam, 1667), between pp. 70-71.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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