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TWO COLORED COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS OF THE CONQUESTS OF THE QIANLONG EMPEROR
DATED 1769
the first, the Receiving of the Surrender of the Ili, from a drawing by Jonatius Sichelbarth, engraved by Benoit-Louis Prevost under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, the lower edge inscribed P. Jonatius Sichelbarth Soc. JESU delin. 1765, C.N. Cochin direx., and B.L. Prevost Sculpsit 1769; the second, the Storming of the Camp at Mount Gadan, from a drawing by Giuseppe Castiglione, engraved by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, the lower edge inscribed Joseph Castilhoni Soc. JESU delin 1765, C.N. Cochin direx., and J. Ph. Le Bas Scul 1769; each tinted, framed, and glazed (2)
Height 20 in., 50.8 cm; Width 35 in., 89 cm
Estimate
10,000
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15,000
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