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Stone building with nomad tents in distance, N.W. China – Historic Photograph Print

Stone building with nomad tents in distance, N.W. China, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic drawing
Stone building with nomad tents in distance, N.W. China, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures Stone building with nomad tents in distance, N.W. China in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Stone building with nomad tents in distance, N.W. China

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A stone building stands in the picture while nomad tents appear in the distance, a pairing of permanent architecture and temporary dwellings that sets this sketch apart in northwestern China. The artist is unknown and the caption card gives no date, so the record places it only among 19th-century Russian drawings of China in the Yudin Collection at the Library of Congress. Sketches like this were often made by travelers crossing borderlands where settled communities and herding peoples lived side by side. A possible counterpart in an album of Russian drawings suggests it may have been one of a numbered series.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 drawing.
NotesDrawing by unknown artist. Ref. 228. Yudin Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: China; Tents; Nomads.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,020 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157600

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