Empress, by Sunqua

An image of Album: Manchu Officials. Empress. Sunqua, attributed (Chinese, ac.1830-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours (folios 1-12) on pith paper with two blank foilios (front and back, unnumbered). Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, gold and silver on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 365 mm, width 256 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Album: Manchu Officials. Empress. Sunqua, attributed (Chinese, ac.1830-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours (folios 1-12) on pith paper with two blank foilios (front and back, unnumbered). Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, gold and silver on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 365 mm, width 256 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Accession Number: 4165(11)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 728 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 562.43kB
Exposure time: 1/17
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 10:40:43

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19th Century album attendants birds bodycolour Chinese clothes clothing costume dress emperor empress fashion female Fitz_PDP girls hair headdress Manchu Manchurian official paper peacock peacock feather pith paper royal royalty ru-i ruiyi rulers sceptre screen seated servant silk sitting Sunqua watercolour woman

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