Period:Unknown Production date:19thC(late)-20thC(early) (?)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden palace/mansion
Dimensions:Height: 206 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 268 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Image composed of two woodblocks, from a set of nine images: reduced and amended version of a plate from the series of thirty-six prints by Matteo Ripa, ‘Thirty-six views of the Imperial Summer Palace at Jehol’; view with a lake or river, the water emerging from a stream with a bridge across it and land on either side with buildings (including a boat-house) and trees; behind them, clouds partially obscure the hills beyond; in the immediate foreground, trees visible; dark oval plants or stones near the shoreline; rocky landscape in the distance. Woodblock print on two sheets of oriental paper, conjoined
IMG
Comments:The plate it is a version of in the BM Ripa set is 1955,0212,0.1.17. The woodcuts were possibly taken from a book.An almost complete set of the original Ripa prints (1955,0212,0.1 to 34), bound in an volume, is in the Department of Asia, as well as two loose prints (1968,0212,0.27 and 28) from another set, kept in that volume, and completing the series. For more information on the original series, see Curator’s Comment for 1955,0212,0.1.1.
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden palace/mansion
Dimensions:Height: 206 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 268 millimetres (trimmed)
Description:
Image composed of two woodblocks, from a set of nine images: reduced and amended version of a plate from the series of thirty-six prints by Matteo Ripa, ‘Thirty-six views of the Imperial Summer Palace at Jehol’; view with a lake or river, the water emerging from a stream with a bridge across it and land on either side with buildings (including a boat-house) and trees; behind them, clouds partially obscure the hills beyond; in the immediate foreground, trees visible; dark oval plants or stones near the shoreline; rocky landscape in the distance. Woodblock print on two sheets of oriental paper, conjoined
IMG
Comments:The plate it is a version of in the BM Ripa set is 1955,0212,0.1.17. The woodcuts were possibly taken from a book.An almost complete set of the original Ripa prints (1955,0212,0.1 to 34), bound in an volume, is in the Department of Asia, as well as two loose prints (1968,0212,0.27 and 28) from another set, kept in that volume, and completing the series. For more information on the original series, see Curator’s Comment for 1955,0212,0.1.1.
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