[The victories at war of the Chinese emperor Ch'ien Lung, between 1736 and 1795] – Historic Reproduction
![[The victories at war of the Chinese emperor Ch'ien Lung, between 1736 and 1795] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7a8a6b343981-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [The victories at war of the Chinese emperor Ch'ien Lung, between 1736 and 1795], preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This engraving takes its title from a span that covers nearly the whole reign of the Qianlong emperor, who ruled China from 1735 to 1796, and the print's own date range of 1769 to 1796 places its production within that long period. Qing court painters, including Jesuit artists working in Beijing, recorded the emperor's military campaigns in Central Asia, and European engravers later translated those paintings into copperplate prints, which gave Western audiences some of their first detailed views of the Qing campaigns. Copper engraving allowed fine line detail and wide distribution, so these images shaped European ideas about Chinese imperial power.
| Medium | 1 print : copper engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1769-1796. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121686 |
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