Le Khan du Badakhsan demande a se soumettre, 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 × 93.8 cm (22 11/16 × 36 15/16 in.)
image: 51.4 × 90.5 cm (20 1/4 × 35 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1689

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 Dmascenus 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 Parisiis 1772; at lower left, in graphite: No. 11 B-24175; at lower right, in graphite: 16; verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 11. Tchao-Hoei occupe les troupes à des exercices / & à des jeux militaires, avant que d’entreprendre / l’expédition de la Petite Buckarie, à la fin / de la campagne de 1758.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius