Furrier
Pu-Qua, Dadley
Basic information
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 is depicted in full face. He is turned three-quarters to the right. The man is dressed in a short purple robe, black vest, and blue pants tucked into cloth green boots with purple galoshes. On the man's head is a flat, round, black and blue hat with a brown fur strand on the top. In his left hand, the man holds a raised vertical pole with four fur skins and two hats tied. Five brown fur skins hang on his right hand. A grey fur skin is tied to the man's belt on the left side. 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 "48".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
