Title
The Place for Thinking : A Pleasure House in View of a very pretty little Island.
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 lake or river, with a man standing before a bridge providing access from the shore to a small island with trees opposite a pavilion built near the water's edge and surrounded by various types of trees, with 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 1955,0212,0.1.8).
Other persons
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.73.