print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1855,0512.243
- Title
- Object: Prospect of ye Inner Court of the Emperours Palace at Pekin
- Description
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Inner court of the Emperor's palace at Peking, seen from a height, with ambassadors kneeling and standing at centre foreground, supervised by a herald, and figures tending to twelve horses behind, facing one another in two lines; guards lined up on three sides in front of the buildings; 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.126); second state.
Etching
- Production date
- 1669 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 216 millimetres
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Width: 307 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0512.243