Accession number
PML 145850.152
Published
[Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from published caption.
Engraved illustration excised from a copy of Athanasius Kircher's China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ... (Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667), p. 140.
Mounted as item 152 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Engraved illustration excised from a copy of Athanasius Kircher's China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ... (Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667), p. 140.
Mounted as item 152 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 159 x 202 mm; plate mark: 166 x 212 mm; sheet: 174 x 222 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Sino-Indian diety Pussa, here depicted reclining on a multi-stemmed lotus or water-lily, with blossoms and leaves rising from the waves, topped by a draped figure with an irradiated, solar face, beside a vase of flowers; a smaller flower emerges from the figure at left, on which a figure is shown kneeling in prayer.
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