Accession number
PML 76758
Creator
Ripa, Matteo.
Published
[Jehol, China : s.n., 1713?]
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1980.
Notes
Title and publication information from NUC vol. 496, NR 0293014.
Father Ripa is said to have finished the engravings in 1713.
Pencil note at foot of first engraving: "Series of landscapes designed & engraved by native Chinese artists."
15 drawings bound ahead of the engravings and one at end cataloged separately.
Father Ripa is said to have finished the engravings in 1713.
Pencil note at foot of first engraving: "Series of landscapes designed & engraved by native Chinese artists."
15 drawings bound ahead of the engravings and one at end cataloged separately.
Description
[36] leaves of plates : engravings ; 35 x 39 cm
Provenance
Inscription on fly leaf: "C 64 C. Barrow"; with the Oak Spring bookplate of Paul Mellon.
Binding
Red morocco in the Harleian style; in red case. The same design and many of the same tools can be seen in a binding on a copy of Prior's Poems (1718 [i.e., 1719]), reproduced in Maggs, Bookbinding in the British Isles (1996), item 88.
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