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Detail View: Rylands Collection: Chinese musical instruments

Image Number: 
JRL030529tr
Reference Number: 
Chinese Drawings 27
Image Title: 
Chinese musical instruments
Parent Work Title: 
Chinese Drawings: Musical Instruments
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Crawford Chinese Collection: Illustrations
Date Created: 
c1780
Volume: 
27
Page/Sheet: 
Plate 9
Image Sequence Number: 
009
Description: 
Illustrated: painting. 1: Mongol / Tartar mandolin with 4 strings; 2: small Chinese violin, has 2 strings through which the bow passes. In Chinese: Cantonese dialect.
Subject: 
Musical instruments
Subject: 
Art, Chinese
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Time Period Covered: 
18th Century CE
Places Covered: 
China
Item Height: 
475 mm
Item Width: 
395 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
References: 
Zheng Yaying and John B.W. Deane, Handlist of the Chinese Collections in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (unpublished catalogue, 1991)
Image Creation Technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, June 2004
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands