Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1783-1786 (circa)
Materials:paper, silk, wood,
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion formal garden fountain bamboo
Dimensions:Height: 50.60 centimetres (trimmed) Width: 87.60 centimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Bamboo Gazebos, north side; Plate 9 from a set of twenty engravings. View of the lattice-work building in the middle ground; a paved path leading up to a fountain in front of the building, with ornamental basins filled with lotuses on either side of the path; two topiary on the extreme right and left; behind the perimeter wall, densely planted trees. Engraving in an album; inscribed and numbered.
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![图片[1]-print; album BM-1916-0214-0.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_P2250234.jpg)
Comments:The full set comprises twenty copper-plate engravings of the European Palaces (Xiyanglou 西洋樓) of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園), thirteen of which are included in this album. The thirteen BM prints are mounted in moiré silk in a linked album with wooden covers, and are from two separate Registration series: 1916,0214,0.1 to 1916,0214,0.4 and 1924,0523,0.13 to 1924.0523,0.21.For further information, see 1916,0214,0.1.
Materials:paper, silk, wood,
Technique:engraving
Subjects:palace/mansion formal garden fountain bamboo
Dimensions:Height: 50.60 centimetres (trimmed) Width: 87.60 centimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Bamboo Gazebos, north side; Plate 9 from a set of twenty engravings. View of the lattice-work building in the middle ground; a paved path leading up to a fountain in front of the building, with ornamental basins filled with lotuses on either side of the path; two topiary on the extreme right and left; behind the perimeter wall, densely planted trees. Engraving in an album; inscribed and numbered.
IMG
Comments:The full set comprises twenty copper-plate engravings of the European Palaces (Xiyanglou 西洋樓) of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園), thirteen of which are included in this album. The thirteen BM prints are mounted in moiré silk in a linked album with wooden covers, and are from two separate Registration series: 1916,0214,0.1 to 1916,0214,0.4 and 1924,0523,0.13 to 1924.0523,0.21.For further information, see 1916,0214,0.1.
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
