[London] : Printed for Robert Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane. Fleet Street & H. Overton, without Newgate, [ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2034810
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With engraved illustrations of palaces, pagodas, river scenes, a triumphal arch, and shops, along with city views of Peking and Canton.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
China -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- China -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture, Chinese -- Early works to 1800. | Sayer, Robert -- Publisher | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1752.
Contributors:
Couse, J., engraver. | Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690-1770, ill. | Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.