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Fig. 3.8. High dignitaries,
watercolour on pith
paper
a. From album with
12 images, anonymous,
19th century, 21 x 29 cm,
The Hague Royal
Academy of Fine Arts,
inv.no. Z 53 (3).
b. From albums with
10 images, Youqua,
1850-1860, 33 x 25.5 cm,
Wereldmuseum
Rotterdam,
inv.no. 19167.9.
c. From album with
11 images, anonymous,
19th century, 22.5 x 32
cm, The Hague Royal
Academy of Fine Arts,
inv.no. Z 53 (2).
d. From set of 16,
anonymous, Youqua (?),
1840-1870, 20 x 12.5 cm,
Museum Volkenkunde/
Nationaal Museum van
Wereldculturen,
inv.no. RV-360-7515n.
e. From album with 12
images, anonymous,
watercolour on pith
paper, 1851-1856,
tenacious and the long-held idea in the Western brushes, the choice of colour application, the
27 x 18.5 cm,
world of the Chinese export painting production question of adding accessories and compositional
SAB-City Archives and
process. Reproductions have a negative elements or not, or to establish a master-tutor
Athenaeum Library
connotation in the West. The vision of Walter relationship to train entrants in the field, are
Deventer,
Benjamin on printing techniques in The Work of some of the other factors that transmitted their
inv.no. DvT V.2.11.KL.
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction artistic originality and creativity.
f. From set of 12,
(1936) has previously been indicative and Several authors emphasise that, exceptionally,
anonymous,
influential. According to him, an artwork loses early botanical watercolours as well as the less
19th century, 12.5 x 9 cm,
its aura when it is reproduced using technical stereotypical export landscapes were often
Museum Volkenkunde/
means. Using templates and setting up painted by one artist. Historical contemporary
Nationaal Museum van
compositional lines before painting to shorten observations would have us believe that,
Wereldculturen,
the production process was only one thing. generally, every artist working on a complete
inv.no. RV-1299-8g.
Painters could show their skills through many composition could choose elements from a
more practices. The option to use different size collection of printed outlines: a boat, a person,