Berlin Battle Engravings

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Author: Henriette Lavaulx-Vrécourt, Niklas Leverenz (Eds.)The publication presents the entire collection of printing plates depicting battles of the Chinese emperor that are still in existence. They show scenes of Chinese military campaigns between 1755 and 1828. Of the originally 88 printing plates, only 37 are still known today, 34 of them in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. The book tells the history of the plates’ provenance and describes the history of copperplate engraving in China. The process in which the printing plates were created and the motifs found in the pictures of battles are also explained. The magnificent copper plates, which are part of the exhibition in the Wang Shu Room of the Humboldt Forum, bear witness to the history of missionaries in China, the military campaigns and politics of the Chinese emperor, the transnational interrelation of culture and craft, and ultimately the craft of copperplate engraving itself. ISBN 9783422987685. Birkhauser Verlag. pb. 248 pages. 175 colour ills. 27 x 21 cm. .available Show more