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‘The form of clouds and figures in the water’
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This print illustrates Ripa's struggle to render the Chinese landscape in a copperplate engraving. He mimicked the shape of the mountains depicted in the woodcut: however, he did not entirely fill in their surface with lines, instead using sparse hatching to create shading and give them volume. The foliage of the trees, on the other hand, does adhere to the Chinese style in the woodcut.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit line‘De vorm van wolken en figuren in het water’. 1712 - 1714. Matteo Ripa. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.