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Westlake Panorama

西湖全景

mid-1700s
Measurements
Image: 34.6 x 55.2 cm (13 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.); Paper: 38 x 59.3 cm (14 15/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
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Description

Revived by the southern imperial inspection tours, West Lake imagery became a popular subject during the early Qing dynasty. This panorama is composed of four prints, showing the Ten Scenes of the West Lake in Hangzhou along with other sights. The vanishing point perspective and the hatching lines that depict shading, water, or sky derive from European copperplate prints, introduced by missionaries to China, and were celebrated novelties in 18th-century Suzhou prints. These prints also reached Europe to furnish 18th-century palace interiors.

Westlake Panorama

mid-1700s

China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)

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