Bridge Over River at Jehol, Manchuria

 

Pieter Irwin Brown

  1903 - 1988 (biography)

1937  

color woodcut 

12 1/8 x 20" image size 

pencil, lower right image 

not stated 

 

 

ivory laid Japanese 

published 

Adachi Toyohisa and the Adachi Institute of Prints, Tokyo 

CAAL167 

SOLD

While visiting China, one of the places that especially interested Brown was Jehol, located in the northwest Chinese province of Hebei. The Chinese emperor Kangxi (1662-1723) had chosen Jehol as the site for an imperial summer palace because of its cool climate and natural beauty. The imperial palace was completed by Kangxi’s successor Qianlong (1736-96), who also built many temples around the surrounding lakes and mountains. Jehol was abandoned in the late 19th century and had probably suffered from vandalism by the time Brown visited it. Since the 1960s, Jehol (now called Chengde) has been protected and restored by the Chinese government. Brown made many drawings of this area which would later be turned into woodblock prints.