Print Description
This print shows a view on a Tartar horseman on a large ox, with a bow and arrow and a lance or banner at an encampment with tents and carts. Tartares Taguris, tirés d’Ysbrand Ides, which refers to the Daur- or Taguri-Tartars (former name for the population around Heilongjiang in China) as described in the travelogue of Evert Ysbrantsz Ides.
Made by Jacob van Schley after Prevost.
Medium: Engraving / etching on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 26.7 cm (7.87 x 10.51 inch). Image size: 14 x 21 cm. (5.51 x 8.27 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Creases. Bownish. Horizontal folds. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
TARTAR-OX-CHINA-BOW AND ARROW-TENTS | RBOS-A11-19
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a Dutch ed. of Prevost’s monumental work: ‘Historische Beschryving der Resizen […]’, published in The Hague by Pieter de Hondt, 1748. Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exiles’ (or Abbe Prevost’s) multi-volume ‘Histoire Generale Des Voyages’ (1746-1759): ultimately 17 quarto volumes recounting major voyages of discovery and descriptions of far flung parts and including around 240 maps, plans and charts of those areas.This attractive print was originally published in the travelogue of Evert Ysbrantsz Ides in 1749.
Biography engraver: Jakob van der Schley or Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam – 7 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733) whose style he subsequently copied.
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