Caption
Landscape with two Chinese women playing a card game, New invented Chinese, drawn with great difficulty and brought into the light, by P: Schenk Jun, first part, print, album page, ornamental print, Series number, 8, 24, Landscape with two Chinese women playing a card game. On the right a woman with a loaded tray. On the left a table on which an animal lies. Print is part of an album., printmaker: Pieter Schenk (II), Amsterdam, 1727 - 1775, paper, etching, height 165 mm x width 262 mm, landscapes in the temperate zone, playing-cards, Chinese (women), A black and white line drawing shows an outdoor scene with two seated women at a rectangular table playing a card game, one woman reaching toward the cards and the other holding a small object, both wearing flowing robes and seated on stools. To the right, a standing woman in similar attire holds a shallow tray of round objects and stands by a railing overlooking rippling water. A boat with a tall sail and small figures is on the water in the background, with a tree nearby and a small building with a tiled roof on the distant shore. Decorative plants and stylized rocks frame the scene, a small animal rests on a low round table at the left, and two birds fly above the distant landscape.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B27_240
License type
Rights managed
Available size
40.8Mb (8.7Mb) / 15.6in x 10.2in / 4670 x 3054 (300dpi)