Le combat du Yesil-kol-nor, 1772

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series Title

Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 57.6 × 92.7 cm (22 11/16 × 36 1/2 in.)
image: 50.3 × 89 cm (19 13/16 × 35 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1686

Artists / Makers

Nicolas Delaunay (artist) French, 1739 - 1792

Giovanni Damasceno (artist after) Italian, 1727-1781

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: P.J. Joes Damascenas a SS.â Conceptione Augustinus excalceatus Sacrae Congregationis Missionarius Apostol.s Delineavit et Fecit; in plate, below image, at center: C. N. Cochin Filius Direxit.; in plate, below image, at right: N De Launay Sculp. 1772; at lower left, in graphite: No. 12 B-24174; at lower right, in graphite: 13; verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 12. Premier combat entre l’armée de l’empire com- / mandée par Tchao-Hoei & Fou-Té & l’armée / des deux Hot-Chom, sur les frontières de la Petite / Buckarie. Les troupes impériales passent la / rivière malgré la résistance opiniatre de l’en- / -nemie. Année 1759.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius