[Views of Jehol, the seat of the summer palace of the emperors of China
By: thirty-six etchings by Matteo Ripa]
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1713
Place of publication: Chengde, China
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Gardens; Bi shu shan zhuang (Chengde, China)
Other titles: [Thirty-six views of Jehol]; [Thirty-six views of the Summer Palace]; [Imperial gardens at Jehol]
Notes: Leaves are folded accordion style.

Title and publication information from NUC vol. 496, NR 0293014.

Father Ripa is said to have finished the engravings in 1713.

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Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Painter, engraver, missionary; b. 1682, d. 1746.

Lib. copy has contemporary binding of yellow Chinese silk with flower pattern.

Lib. copy has slip (6 x 9 cm.) pasted on front flyleaf on which is written, in handwriting contemporary with the engravings, "La Villa Imperiale detta Gê hô King, one l'Imperatore della Cina tiene lè sue Delizie, e specialmente della Caccia, e Pesca, &c."