Title
The two Lakes like two Looking Glasses : A View of the Place where the Pleasure Boats are Sent for the Service of the Emperor & his Mistresses.
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 in a hilly landscape crossed by two bridges, one leading to a roofed gateway on the opposite bank with a group of figures sitting outside a pavilion among trees and a boathouse; fishermen, water plants and a moored boat in the foreground and rocky landscape in the background. Plate numbered at top right.
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 1968,0212,0.27).
Other persons
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.73.