Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Subjects:plant harvesting/haymaking
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 164 millimetres
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Figures harvesting sugarcane with scythes at a plantation on a riverbank, others working under roofed open structures behind; 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.252); letterpress below and on verso p.251. Etching with letterpress
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Materials:paper
Technique:etching, letterpress,
Subjects:plant harvesting/haymaking
Dimensions:Height: 105 millimetres Width: 164 millimetres
Description:
Figures harvesting sugarcane with scythes at a plantation on a riverbank, others working under roofed open structures behind; 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.252); letterpress below and on verso p.251. Etching with letterpress
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