川瀬敏郎 Toshiro Kawase19 janvier 2013
Getty Research Institute announces the acquisition of a rare set of Chinese battle prints
Ping ding Kuoerke zhan tu, or Pictures of the Campaigns against the Gurkhas (i.e., Nepalese), China, ca. 1793. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired an extraordinarily rare suite of battle prints from about 1793 that depict the Chinese Emperor Qianlong's (reign era, 1736–1795) successful military campaign against invading armies from Nepal. These eight large-format copper engravings represent the complete set of prints commissioned by the Emperor to commemorate his... [Lire la suite]