Man playing the zheng, by Youqua

An image of Man playing the zheng. Youqua, Chinese artist (ac.1840-1870). 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, 337, mm, width, 250, mm, 19th Century. Chinese. Production Notes: Stamp on the album gives the address of Youqua's first studio, Old Street No.34. He later opened a second in Hong Kong at No.107 Queen's Road.

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Man playing the zheng. Youqua, Chinese artist (ac.1840-1870). 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, 337, mm, width, 250, mm, 19th Century. Chinese. Production Notes: Stamp on the album gives the address of Youqua's first studio, Old Street No.34. He later opened a second in Hong Kong at No.107 Queen's Road.

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Accession Number: 4169(5)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 772 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 131.70kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 11:22:11

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19th Century Artist/Maker Chinese Date Department Fitz_PDP Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow Youqua _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd attendants clothes clothing costume drawing gentleman gu zheng guzheng hats leisure male music musical musical instruments musician paper performer performing pith paper playing playing an instrument stringed watercolour zither

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