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Europe 1600-1815, Room 7, The Sheikha Amna Bint Mohammed Al Thani Gallery

Innward Part of a Pagode or Chinese Pagane Temple

Etching
1669 (published)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (printed)
John Ogilby (published)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print showing a Chinese pagoda or temple.


Object details

Categories
Tourism & Travel
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleInnward Part of a Pagode or Chinese Pagane Temple (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching on laid paper
Printing Ink
Laid Paper
Etching
Brief description
'Innward Part of a Pagode or Chinese Pagane Temple'; Anonymous; 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 a Chinese pagoda or temple.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.9cm (platemark)
  • Width: 32.7cm (platemark)
  • Height: 20.3cm (size of image)
  • Width: 31.9cm (size of image)
  • 26.1 height: cm (size of sheet)
  • Width: 41.6cm (size of sheet)
Style
English School
Marks and inscriptions
Innward part of a pagode or a Chinese Pagane Temple (Lettered in capitals in ink with title)
Gallery label
'Innward Part of a Pagode or Chinese Pagane Temple' 1669 This print is from an account of the Dutch East India Company’s embassy to China in 1655. Embassies eased diplomatic and trading relations between Europeans and Asian rulers. By 1800, a total of 18 European delegations had been to China. Asian powers also sent ambassadors to Europe. An embassy from the King of Siam (Thailand) to Louis XIV created a sensation in Paris in the 1680s. England (London) Etching From John Ogilby’s translation of An Embassy sent by the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Gran Tartar Cham Emperour of China by J. Nieuhoff (Dutch Republic, 1655) Given by Westminster City Council(09.12.2015)
Credit line
Given by Westminster City Council
Object history
The plate as it appears in the published volume bears the additional lettering "Emb: Folio 225". A copy of the book is in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library.

This plate is an illustration to face page 225 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
Pagoda
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
  • A Descriptive Catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677; Richard Pennington; Cambridge University Press; 2002. 1184. Interior of a pagoda In des. top: INVWARD PART OF A PAGODE or Chinese pagan temple. A tall pagoda on l. On r. an idol in an arcaded building. Unsigned. From 'Ogilby, China, 1669, and ed. of 1673. Not by H.
  • John Ogilby and the taste of his times; Katharine S.van Eerde; Folkestone, Eng: Dawson, 1976
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1735-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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