Caption
Chinese landscape with bull hunt, Newly invented Chinese, drawn with great difficulty and published, by P: Schenk Jun, third part, Chinese hunting scenes, print, album page, ornamental print, Series number, 7, 12, In a landscape, a man seated on a horse with an axe in his hand is hunting a bull. Numbered at the bottom center: 5. Print is part of an album., printmaker: Pieter Schenk (II), Amsterdam, 1727 - 1775, paper, etching, height 161 mm x width 252 mm, landscapes in the temperate zone, Chinese, hunt, mammals, A landscape scene rendered in fine linework shows a rider on a saddled horse raising a long pole tipped with a curved blade while wearing a turban and flowing garments; the horse moves forward with a visible bridle and decorative saddle. Nearby a large horned bovine lies on the ground and a dog with a collar is depicted in a reclining posture facing the bovine. In the background a cluster of buildings with curved roofs sits among trees and low hills, with a small towerlike structure further back. Birds fly in the sky above open plains. Framing the right side is a tree with a textured trunk, drooping foliage, and layered branches extending toward the center, and the foreground contains rocks, plants, and water features rendered with linear patterns.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B27_263
License type
Rights managed
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38.2Mb (9.2Mb) / 15.1in x 9.8in / 4544 x 2937 (300dpi)