Detail View: Rylands Collection: Pair of Quails
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Image Number:
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JRL022744tr
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Reference Number:
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Chinese Drawings 21
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Image Title:
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Pair of Quails
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Parent Work Title:
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Chinese Drawings: Birds
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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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c1800
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Volume:
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21
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Page/Sheet:
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No.11
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Image Sequence Number:
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011
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Description:
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Illustrated: painting: Pair of Quails. Quails were popular in the Far East as an edible delicacy and for a version of cockfighting.
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Subject:
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Art, Chinese
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Subject:
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Birds
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Subject:
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Natural 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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Places Covered:
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China
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Item Height:
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420 mm
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Item Width:
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345 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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Access Rights:
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References:
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'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Vol. 82, Nos. 2 and 3, 2000. Zheng Yaying, 'Crawford Chinese Collection' 1991.
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Image Creation Technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, March 2004
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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