Prospect of ye Inner Court of the Emperours Palace at Pekin

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Artist/Maker	Hollar, Wenceslaus (etcher)
Place of origin	London (published)

Print showing the interior of the Emperor's palace at Peking.

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Categories	Tourism & Travel Prints
Object type	Etching
Title	Prospect of ye Inner Court of the Emperours Palace at Pekin (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Etching Printing Ink Laid Paper Etching
Brief description	'Prospect of ye Inner Court of the Emperours Palace at Pekin'. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, illustration from J. Nieuhoff's An Embassy sent by the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Gran Tartar Cham Emperour of China… [1655], London, 1669.
Physical description	Print showing the interior of the Emperor's palace at Peking.
Dimensions	Height: 21.6cm Width: 30.5cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Style	English School
Marks and inscriptions	'W. Hollar f.' (Signed) (Lettered with title and a key to the scene depicted)
Credit line	Given by Westminster City Council
Object history	The plate as it appears in the published volume bears the additional lettering "Emb: Folio 126". A copy of the book is in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library. This plate is an illustration to face page 126 of John Ogilby’s translation of J. Nieuhoff’s An Embassy sent by the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Gran Tartar Cham Emperour of China… [1655], London, 1669.
Subject depicted	Palace
Place depicted	Peking
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1736-1952

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O592005/prospect-of-ye-inner-court-etching-hollar-wenceslaus/

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