Le chef d'Us-Turfan se soumet avec sa ville, 1774

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series Title

Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 57.2 × 93.7 cm (22 1/2 × 36 7/8 in.)
image: 51.7 × 90.4 cm (20 3/8 × 35 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1683

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Philippe Choffard (artist) French, 1730 - 1809

Giovanni Damasceno (artist after) Italian, 1727-1781

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: J. Joannes Damascenus a SS.a Conceptione Augustinus Excalceatus et Missionarius Apostolicus Sacr. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide Delineavit et Fecit; in plate, below image, at center: C. N. Cochin Filius Direx.; in plate, below image, at right: PP. Choffard Sculpsit Parisii 1774.; in graphite, at lower left: No. 13 B-24168; in graphite, at lower right: 10; verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 13. Tchao-Hoei réçoit dans son camp, sous les mur / de Yerechim, les hommages des habitans de la ville / & de la province, & nomme des officiers pour / l’administration de cette partie de la Petite- / Buckarie. Juillet 1759.

Provenance

(Georges Heilbrun, Paris); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius