House of a Chinese official, 1800s. Maison d'un Mandarin. Copied from an illustration by Antoine Cardon in Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's La Chine en miniature, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

---

Size: 7003px × 4729px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1815, antoine, baptiste, bertuch, bilderbuch, book, breton, cardon, carl, children, china, chine, chinese, copperplate, dun, education, empire, en, encyclopedia, engraved, engraving, friedrich, fur, handcoloured, history, house, illustrated, illustration, imperial, jean, johann, joseph, kinder, la, maison, mandarin, miniature, natural, official, pagoda, parasol, picture, plates, weimar