TWO COPPER ENGRAVINGS IN A FRAME

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China, 1787/88 and 1798-1803, the Qianlong poem dated 1789 and 1796
49.5 x 86 und 50 x 86 cm (o.R.)
Battle at Dapulin. The "Battle Copper Prints" are a series of prints from copper engravings dating from the second half of the 18th century. frontiers. The master illustrations for the engravings were large paintings done by European missionary artists employed at that time Jesuit Ignatius Sichelbarth (1708--80), and the Italian Augustinian missionary, Jean-Damascène Sallusti (d. 1781). The engravings in this technique. The emperor even decreed that the work emulate the style of the Augsburg copper engraver Georg Philipp Rugendas to Paris to be transferred on to copperplates, printed, and then sent back to China, along with the plates and prints. Later sets of engravings series. Qianlong's battle copper prints were just one of the means the Manchu emperor employed to document his campaigns of military In the history of Chinese art, copper-print engraving remained an episode. Seen in their political context, the Qianlong prints represent of the Berlin State Library holds a set of five series with a total of 64 prints. This are two prints each from a series of 12 resp. 16 prints depicting the campaign. Frame and glazed.
Old Rhinland private collection assembled before 1970 in Germany by repute - Traces of age