Title
The many Rivers and Air that Breaths from the Pine Tree Its Partner : Apartments where the Europeans were Employ'd by the Emperor.
Creator
Ripa, Matteo, artist.
Publication details
[London] : [Printed for and sold by Thomas Bowles, John Bowles, and Son, Robert Sayer, and Henry Overton], [1753]
Physical details
1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 30 x 31 cm, on sheet 34.5 x 47 cm.
Description
View of a river with men and a dragon bathing in the foreground near a bridge leading to a group of buildings on the opposite shore, including courtyard buildings among trees and hills and a small pavilion at the water's edge; rocky landscape in the background. Plate numbered at top right. Watermark.
Place
Chengde (China)
Additional information
Published as part of 'The Emperor of China's Palace at Pekin, and his principal Gardens, as well in Tartary as at Pekin, Gehol, and the adjacent Countries. With the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of the Royal Gardens. With an Exact Elevation of the Great Mogul's Superb Throne. The Whole neatly Engraved on Twenty Copper-Plates Twelve Inches Square, from the original View, correctly taken on the Spot' (London, 1753). According to Richard Strassberg, this plate is based on one of 'the engravings done by Matteo Ripa in 1713 of the Kangxi emperor's summer palace at Chengde' (for Ripa's print, see BM 1968,0212,0.28).
Other persons
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.73.