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- Museum number
- 1868,0328,0.540
- Title
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Series: Hunan Campaign
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Series: Battle Prints
- Description
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Plate 14 in a series of 16 copper-plate engravings of Qianlong's campaign against the Miao (1795). Chinese soldiers, equipped with guns, swords, spears, arrows and cannon, attacking the Miao and setting fire to buildings; in the middle ground to left, a settlement or village on fire, the inhabitants in disarray. Engraved on two sheets of thin paper, conjoined. Poem and seal.
- Production date
- 1798-1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 51 centimetres
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Width: 88.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Pirazzoli-T'Serstevens, the poems accompanying the engravings are dated 1798, and the engravings with poems appeared in 1798-1803. The sketches for the engravings are attributed to the Court painter Feng Ning.
On the back of the mount is inscribed in later hands, "Miao". "no.14" and "No.6".
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Hunan Campaign
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1868,0328,0.540
