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A Pleasure House on the Water, Where Ladies of the Imperial Court in China Amuse Themselves with Fishing
A Pleasure House on the Water, Where Ladies of the Imperial Court in China Amuse Themselves with Fishing

A Pleasure House on the Water, Where Ladies of the Imperial Court in China Amuse Themselves with Fishing

Artist John Couse (English, active ca. 1750)
Artist After Catharina Sperling Heckel (English, 1699 - 1741)
Date1666
MediumHand-colored etching
DimensionsPlate: 6 × 10 3/16 inches (15.24 × 25.88 cm)
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 13/16 inches (17.15 × 27.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman
Object numberF83-40/4
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History
Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 14.
Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by August 5, 1983;

Given by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1983.

Published References

James Orange, The Chater Collection. Pictures Relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655-1860, Section 12, Miscellaneous (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1924), no. 3. 1-6, p. 482, as Chinese Landscapes.

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 3.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 282, as A Pleasure House on the Water, Where Ladies of the Imperial Court in China Amuse Themselves with Fishing.

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