The Emperor Chien-lung

Artist John Gadsby Chapman (American, 1808 - 1889)

Date1801

MediumAquatint

DimensionsPlate: 6 1/2 × 4 7/16 inches (16.51 × 11.23 cm)
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 3/8 inches (24.94 × 18.72 cm)

Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman

Object numberF83-40/27

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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. 9.

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 3, Miscellaneous (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1924), no. 7, pp. 59, 62, as Emperor Chien-lung.

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), 277, as The Emperor Chien-lung.

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