Dr Mamtimyn Sunuodula, Head of the East Asian Section at the Bodleian Libraries, introduces newly rediscovered Chinese painting albums and woodblock illustrations bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834 by the antiquarian Francis Douce. Unstudied for over two centuries, they recently came to light through archival research. The talk traces their provenance and the network of scholars, diplomats and collectors who gathered Chinese books and art in late eighteenth-century Britain and Europe.
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Talk: Rediscovery of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Painting Albums in Oxford, Dr Mamtimyn Sunuodula
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Dr Mamtimyn Sunuodula, Head of the East Asian Section at the Bodleian Libraries, introduces newly rediscovered Chinese painting albums and woodblock illustrations bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834 by the antiquarian Francis Douce. Unstudied for over two centuries, they recently came to light through archival research. The talk traces their provenance and the network of scholars, diplomats and collectors who gathered Chinese books and art in late eighteenth-century Britain and Europe.