Detail View: Rylands Collection: Chi You
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Image Number:
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JRL021869tr
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Reference Number:
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Chinese Drawings 56
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Image Title:
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Chi You
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Parent Work Title:
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Chinese Drawings: Historical Illustrations
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Crawford Chinese Collection: Illustrations
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Date Created:
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18th century [late]
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Page/Sheet:
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Plate 51
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Image Sequence Number:
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051
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Description:
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Illustrated: painting: Chi You (a legendary rebel) made a big mist; Emperor Huang Di [2697 - 2597 BCE] made a vehicle with a wooden figure always pointing south (an early compass) & killed him. Depictions of Chinese myth, fables & historical events. Eighteenth century.
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Subject:
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Death
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Subject:
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Art, Chinese
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Subject:
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Folklore
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Subject:
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Art
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Subject:
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China--History
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Technique Used:
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Painting (image-making)
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Creation Site:
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China: Canton
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Culture:
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Cantonese
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Culture:
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Miao
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Places Covered:
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China
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People Covered:
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Emperor Huang Di, 2697-2597 BCE
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Item Height:
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460 mm
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Item Width:
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590 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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References:
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Zheng Yaying and John B.W. Deane, Handlist of the Chinese Collections in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (unpublished catalogue, 1991)
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Image Creation Technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, August 2003
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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