print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1855,0512.311
- Title
- Object: The manner of Writing
- Description
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A Chinese scribe standing at a table in profile to left, writing on a sheet of paper; monkey sitting nearby on the checkered floor, reading; conical object on tile at left, door behind; shelf with books on the wall; illustration cut from Johannes Nieuhof's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China' (London: 1669, Kircher p.105); letterpress on verso; first state.
Etching
- Production date
- 1669
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 millimetres
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Width: 165 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1850,0223.349 for another impression.
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
- 1855,0512.311