Period:Unknown Production date:19thC(late)-20thC(early) (?)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden palace/mansion
Dimensions:Height: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 270 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 tall hills and valleys, and trees; to right, courtyard buildings, and a stream with flat stones at the edge and a plank across it; at the top of a hill to left, a pavilion; rocky landscape in the distance. Woodblock print on two sheets of oriental paper, conjoined
IMG
![图片[1]-print BM-1991-0325-0.7-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00575773_001.jpg)
Comments:The plate it is a version of in the BM Ripa set is 1955,0212,0.1.15. 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: 204 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 270 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 tall hills and valleys, and trees; to right, courtyard buildings, and a stream with flat stones at the edge and a plank across it; at the top of a hill to left, a pavilion; 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 1955,0212,0.1.15. 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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