Strassen-Bilder in Peking.
Strassen-Bilder in Peking. | Livres anciens et modernes | [Beijing].
Livres anciens et modernes
[Beijing].
[Beijing, 19th century].,
Strassen-Bilder in Peking.
Strassen-Bilder in Peking. | Livres anciens et modernes | [Beijing].
Livres anciens et modernes
[Beijing].
[Beijing, 19th century].,
28000,00 €
(Wien,
Autriche)
Mode de Paiement
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Détails
- Auteur
- [Beijing].
- Éditeurs
- [Beijing, 19th century].
- Thème
- Travel and Exploration
- Langues
- Anglais
Description
50 watercolours (342 x 240 mm) mounted on album paper, all captioned in Chinese. In brown cloth. Oblong folio. Curious album of 50 watercolours, showing various portraits of people who do business in the streets of Beijing, among them a barber, street vendors, carpenters, jugglers, sculptors, beggars, mouse and rat catchers, newspaper salesmen, pickpockets, etc. The album also shows different types of machines such as slides and looms as well as everyday scenes: a young boy stealing the hat of an elderly man, another man collecting food discarded by the wealthy, a painter drawing the portrait of a deceased. - In very good condition, with ms. German translations of the Chinese captions.
