print
- Museum number
- 1932,0715.48.+
- Title
- Series: Victoires et Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine
- Description
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Plate 12 from a set of from a set of sixteen plates; battle scene with Qing mounted archers galloping across the foreground; in the middle ground to right, Qing cavalry, led by an officer, wait while their soldiers fire cannon and exchange gunfire with the enemy on the other bank of a river; to left, Turkic Muslims, some with livestock, flee across another branch of the river; all around scenes of fighting in mountainous landscape. 1772
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1772
- Dimensions
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Height: 580 millimetres
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Width: 920 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate 12 is often titled in modern literature: The Battle at Yesil-Kol-Nor; Le combat de Yesil-Kol-Nor. None of the plates in the original edition was ever lettered with a title.
This print is from an incomplete BM set (fifteen only, 1932,0715.46 to 59, including 48*) of the sixteen plates known as 'Victoires et Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine' commemorating the Qianlong Emperor's victories in Central Asia from 1755 to1759. (For a complete set see 1848,0205, 517 to 532).
For further information, see the Curator's Comment for 1932,0715.57.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Victories of Emperor Qianlong 1755-1759
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- Prints 1932,0715.46 to 59 were formerly bound in an album that was broken up after transfer from the Map Library (Maps 145.e.20).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1932,0715.48.+