Title
The Vapour of the Earth covers the Houses on the Mountain : A Pallace for Affairs of State.
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 mounds with trees and sailing ships on a lake or river on the left and figures on a road leading to courtyard buildings and a strip of land on the right; landscape with trees and mountains 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 1955,0212,0.1.11).
Other persons
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.73.