Embroideress
Pu-Qua, Dadley
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-5531/46
- Author
- Pu-Qua Dadley
- Name
- Embroideress
- Date of creation
- late 17th – early 18th c.
- Country
- China
- Culture
- Far East
- Technique
- etching watercolour embossing
- Material
- Indian ink paper
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 29.3 x 24.4
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 woman is depicted in full face. She is turned three-quarters to the left. She is shown sitting on a cylindrical ceramic chair. The woman is dressed in a long blue robe with wide white cuffs, dark grey pants, and dark pink fabric shoes. On her wrists, there are bracelets made of red beads. On the head is a black cap with a coloured floral ornament and yellow ties. The woman is embroidering a floral ornament on a red canvas fixed on a stretcher. 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 "46".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
