The Bridge from Mountaine to Mountaine in the Province of Xensi Called the flying Bridg 400 Cub: long 500 high.
[Francis Place?]
[London: John Ogilby, 1669.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 215 x 305mm (8½ x 12"), with very large margins. Time stained.
Although the 'flying bridge' at Shensi described by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, is believed to have been a bamboo suspension bridge, this view shows a conventional stone bridge over a a waterfall. An etching probably by Francis Place, who worked with Wenceslaus Hollar on John Ogilby's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces', the first English edition of Johan Nieuhof's account of the embassy. However this state, with lettering lower right, was included in Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 55451] £130.00
[London: John Ogilby, 1669.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 215 x 305mm (8½ x 12"), with very large margins. Time stained.
Although the 'flying bridge' at Shensi described by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, is believed to have been a bamboo suspension bridge, this view shows a conventional stone bridge over a a waterfall. An etching probably by Francis Place, who worked with Wenceslaus Hollar on John Ogilby's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces', the first English edition of Johan Nieuhof's account of the embassy. However this state, with lettering lower right, was included in Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 55451] £130.00