Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese costume ambassador
Dimensions:Height: 102 millimetres Width: 165 millimetres
Description:
Three ambassadors of the Lama conversing on a hill, wearing round hats, long gowns and rosaries, accompanied by a similarly dressed boy, standing at left; pagoda and other buildings in background; letterpress on verso; 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.125). Etching
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Comments:See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar. See also R164-166 for illustrations previously attributed to Hollar.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese costume ambassador
Dimensions:Height: 102 millimetres Width: 165 millimetres
Description:
Three ambassadors of the Lama conversing on a hill, wearing round hats, long gowns and rosaries, accompanied by a similarly dressed boy, standing at left; pagoda and other buildings in background; letterpress on verso; 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.125). Etching
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Comments:See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar. See also R164-166 for illustrations previously attributed to Hollar.
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