print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Q,5.627
- Title
- Object: The Supreme Monarch of the China-Tartarian Empire,
- Description
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A young Chinese emperor in ornate robe standing to right in a palace, holding a long staff, watched by a dog at right; he is shown seated under a canopy in background, five men kneeling before him; tablet at top centre; 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); second state.
Etching
- Production date
- 1669 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 305 millimetres
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Width: 215 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1855,0512.294 and 1867,1012.523 for second state.
Image copied from Athanasius Kircher's 'China Monumentalis Illustrata', Amsterdam: 1667, between pp.68-69.
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 notes
- no evidence of provenance visible on verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,5.627