Chinese Album from Paris in the National Library of Russia

Olga V. Vasilyeva; Васильева Ольга Валентиновна

doi:10.17816/WMO76368

Chinese Album from Paris in the National Library of Russia

Authors: Vasilyeva O.V.¹
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1. National Library of Russia
Issue: Vol 18, No 3 (2021)
Pages: 207-220
Section: Collections and Archives
URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/76368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO76368
ID: 76368

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This article deals with the album of Chinese drawings produced for export in the late 18th — early 19th cc. Originating from Guangzhou, 84 color pictures represent craftsmen, petty traders and street actors. Sixteen of them concur by subject and composition with the engravings published by G.H. Mason who named Pu Qwa as an artist of the originals. Similar drawings can be found in the album of Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm; other ones, close to ours in style, have been included into the album of Capitan Lisianskii. The “Parisian album” was compiled and bound in Paris; it was on sale in the Dondey-Dupré bookshop, and in 1828 Heinrich Julius Klaproth inscribed it with his hand certifying the fact that the drawings had been produced by a Chinese painter (what was probably doubted). It is still unclear how the album reached the Imperial Public library (National library of Russia of today) in Saint-Petersburg. However, it had happened before 1852 when the academician Bernhard Dorn published his catalogue in which the album was described under the number 798.

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Chinese export drawings, Kanton (Guangzhou), Pu Qwa, H.J. Klaproth, National Library of Russia

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Olga V. Vasilyeva

National Library of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: ovbasil@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5722-1443
http://nlr.ru

Head of Oriental Collections’ Sector Manuscript

Russian Federation, 18st., Sadovaya, St. Petersburg, 191069

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