Stonecutter
Pu-Qua, Dadley
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-5531/37
- Author
- Pu-Qua Dadley
- Name
- Stonecutter
- Date of creation
- late 17th – early 18th c.
- Country
- China Austro-Hungarian Empire now Ukraine
- Culture
- Far East
- Technique
- etching watercolour embossing
- Material
- Indian ink paper
- Dimensions
- 29.3 x 24.4 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- album sheet
- Genre
- genre art
- Provenance
- Purchased from a private individual
- Exposition
- Zolochiv Castle (Chinese Palace)
Information about author
Information about author
Object description
A man with a shaved head is depicted in full face. He is squatting on a rectangular block of stone, which he is cutting with a hammer and chisel. The man is wearing a dark green shirt and brown knee-length trousers. The stonecutter is depicted barefoot. Behind the man is a metal net leaning on a wooden support and two rectangular blocks. The etching comes from the album "Chinese Customs and National Costumes", which includes 60 images of Chinese people engaged in various activities. An explanation in German accompanies each image; some are written in French. In the eighteenth century, artists in Canton (Guangzhou) in southern China created such paintings for Europeans seeking to learn more about China and its people.
Inscriptions
In the lower left corner is a calligraphic inscription in Indian ink, "Pu-Qua. Canton. Delin.". In the lower right corner is an inscription, "Dadley. London. Sculpt". In the upper right corner is the number "37".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
