Miller
Pu-Qua, Dadley
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-5531/50
- Author
- Pu-Qua Dadley
- Name
- Miller
- Date of creation
- late 17th – early 18th c.
- Country
- China Italy
- 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 is depicted in full face; he sets his back and both hands against a hand mill's long horizontal wooden handle. The man's head is shaved and twined around with a thin braid. He is dressed in a blue shirt and knee-length grey pants. The man is barefoot. The mill consists of a large round disk made of stone with grindstones attached to it horizontally. There is a round wooden box with a square hole under the disk. 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 "50".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
