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- Museum number
- 1955,0212,0.1.16
- Title
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Object: 泉源石壁 (quan yuan shi bi)
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Series: Thirty-six views of the Imperial Summer Palace at Jehol
- Description
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Plate from a set of thirty-six prints, bound in a album, mounted in an album; view with tall hills in the background, a pavilion on top of one hill, and a stone wall extending from the top of the tallest hill to the ground below, where it screens a series of buildings and incorporates a gateway with steps; in the foreground to left, a river, and on the bank, hills and a large rock formation; the river is fed by a stream, across which there is a plank, then a pavilion on a platform; in the foreground to right, clumps of trees; rocky landscape in the distance.
Engraving on very thin China paper
- Production date
- 1711-1713
- Dimensions
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Height: 378 millimetres (album covers)
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Height: 319 millimetres (print)
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Width: 40.80 millimetres (album covers)
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Width: 347 millimetres (print)
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- Curator's comments
- The full series comprises thirty-six engravings. For comment and bibliography, see 1955,0212,0.1.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Acquisition notes
- A bookplate from the Chiswick House Library is pasted on the inside cover of the album, and the album's provenance is recorded as the Library of the Duke of Devonshire, Compton Place, Eastbourne. It may well have belonged to the 3rd Earl of Burlington (who owned Chiswick House) although if so, he did not necessarily acquire the album from Ripa during the latter's visit to England in 1724. Burlington's sole heir was his daughter, Lady Charlotte Boyle, who married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and thus the Chiswick House library passed to the Dukes of Devonshire. (See Jacques 1900, p.191).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1955,0212,0.1.16