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1431. Add MS 5252/41-50

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/41-50
Title:
Watercolours of temples and other buildings, executed by a Japanese artist, collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Ten watercolours of Japanese temples and beauty spots mainly around Kyoto. The items are mounted individually. On the verso of each is an inscription in Japanese executed in brush calligraphy indicating the place name, as well as a transliteration of the same in in Latin script. A list of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Japanese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (10 items)

1432. Add MS 5252/51-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/51-59
Title:
Textile appliques and Japanese watercolours collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Japanese watercolours and multi-media works pasted on paper collected by Dr Engelbert Kaempfer. Summary description of contents: 51-52. Textile appliques (oshi-e) of two flowering branches, pasted down on a rectangular paper support measuring 195 x 295 mm. In relief on the paper mount, these ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Japanese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (9 items)

1433. Add MS 5252/60-64

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/60-64
Title:
Silk-embroidered figures in Japanese costumes collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Figural silk embroideries manufactured in China showing figures in Japanese costumes, pasted down on paper, each sheet measuring 275 x 205 mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (8 items)

1434. Add MS 5252/65-70

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/65-70
Title:
Silk-embroidered figures in Japanese costumes and textile appliques of Japanese figures collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Silk-embroidered figures in Japanese costumes and textile appliques of Japanese figures collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer. Summary description of contents: 65 A-B, 66, 67. Figural silk embroideries of Chinese manufacture pasted down on rectangular sheets of paper, each measuring 275 x 205 mm....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Japanese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (7 items)

1435. Add MS 5252/100-107

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/100-107
Title:
Silk-embroidered flowers and plants collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Silk embroideries of flowers and plants manufactured in China, each cut out and pasted down on paper, each sheet measuring ca. 255 x 195 mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (8 items)

1436. Add MS 5252/108-115

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5252/108-115
Title:
Silk-embroidered flowers and plants collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Silk embroideries of flowers and plants of Chinese manufacture, each cut out and pasted down on a rectangular sheet of paper measuring ca. 255 x 195 mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (8 items)

1437. Add MS 5252/old covers

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Add MS 5252/old covers
Title:
Old covers of Add MS 5252
Scope & Content:
These are the original covers of Add MS 5252. It is a British Museum binding of red goatskin tooled in gold, measuring 530 x 390 mm. Written in golden characters on the spine are the words 'Japanese Chinese Drawings / MSS Kaempfer / Mus. Brit. / Sloane / 5252 / XL.B'. Some of the folios on which ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

old covers of Add MS 5252

1438. Add MS 5253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5253
Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

1439. Add MS 5255

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5255
Title:
Costume album with Persian and Turkish Officers of State with their wives and other women
Scope & Content:
109 drawings, the vast majority watercolours depicting costumes of mostly Persian and Turkish officers of state. Some of the drawings bear the name of the depicted figure handwritten in pen in Italian. There are red-bordered strip labels pasted below most of the drawings, handwritten in English....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (109 drawings)

1440. Add MS 5256

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5256
Title:
Costume album of the people of Transylvania
Scope & Content:
Watercolour drawings depicting costumes of different people of Transylvania, mostly from regions part of present-day Hungary and Romania. There are drawings of Grecian, Egyptian, Turkish and Croatian costumes. All drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the album. Most of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (84 drawings)

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