Original Copper Engraving with View of the Palace and Chinese Emperor, ca.1700
€ 240
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
Date
1700
Mapmaker / artist
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683. Source Title: Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the vic
Sheet size
26 × 34 cm (10.2 × 13.4 in)
Condition
Fair
Reference
BG-13272-2
Condition
Browned and brown-stained, edges stronger and with a few small stains and blemishes. The paper rather brittle, but overal still a sharp image of this rare image. Study the image carefully or ask for more images.
About this sheet
The richly illustrated travel journal of Johan Nieuhof, a world traveller from Amsterdam was first published in 1655. Nieuhoff accompanied from 1655 to 1658 a delegation of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Emperor of China. After his return he had his journals published. The book was one of the great bestsellers of its time. The enormous interest in this kind of books stimulated many other publishers to publish richly illustrated travel stories. This view on Peking is probable taken from such a book.
Creator: Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683. Source Title: Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary.
Source Created or Published: 1671
Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary. With a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga, and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea. And a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces. Collected out of their several writings and journals, by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq; master of His Majesty's revels in the kingdom of Ireland.
Place of Creation or Publication: London Publisher: printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers.
