Suite des seize estampes représentant les Conquêtes de l'empereur de la Chine
Subtitle: avec leur explication
Publisher: Chez l'Auteur ... et chez M. Ponce ...
Published: 1783
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Pictorial works; History; Military History; Kings and rulers; Religious aspects
Other titles: Conquêtes de l'empereur de la Chine; Chun-ko-erh Hui-pu teng chʻu te sheng tʻu. 1783.
Notes: Engraved throughout.

Prints 1-16 were engraved in 1783-1785 after Chun-ko-erh Hui-pu teng chʻu te sheng tʻu (1769-1774), by Giuseppe Castiglione and others; with a supplement of 6 prints on 8 leaves (1786-1788) of imperial ceremonies; and a leaf of engraved labels for prints 1-18, with caption title and undated imprint.

The "explications" are drawn from J.M. Amiot, in Mémoires concernant l'histoire ... des Chinois and for the most part do not correspond to the subjects of the ill.: nos. 1-16 correspond to nos. 14, 5, 7, 9, 2, 15, 8,1, 3, 10, 13, 12, 6, 4, 11 and 16, respectively, of the original Chinese series. Cf. Pelliot.

"Avis, les [feuilles] nos. XVIII, XIX et XX sont fait [sic] pour être rassemblés et ne former qu'une seule estampe."

Pelliot, P., in Tʻoung pao, 20 (1921)

Gravures des Conquêtes de l'empereur de Chine Kʻien-long au Musée Guimet (1969)