print
- Museum number
- 1932,0715.50
- Title
- Series: Victoires et Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine
- Description
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Plate 2 from a set of sixteen plates; the Kalmuk Ayusi, having transferred to the Chinese side, takes Davaci's camp on Gedengshan (Mount Gädän) by force, in 1755; in the centre in the middle distance, the camp with tents and yurts, cattle, sheep and horses; in the foreground, intense fighting on horseback; large numbers of troops just outside the camp in the distance to left. 1769
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1769
- Dimensions
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Height: 571 millimetres
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Width: 926 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate 2 is often titled in modern literature: The camp [set up] at Gadan-Ola is raided (On force le camp [établi] à Gadan-ola). 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
- 1932,0715.50