Patrick Procktor RA
Camels, Tomb of the First Emperor of the First Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuan Shang - 1980
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Aquatint
Signed and numbered from the edition of 75 impressions
45.3 x 60 cm (inches: 17¾ x 23½.)
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Plate 2 from 'The China Series'
Procktor was the first modern European artist to visit China in 1980 since the Cultural Revolution. He had long been fascinated by the Chinese scrolls in the British Museum and the pervasive influence of Oriental Art, and secured a permit to travel freely in China with a guide and a driver. Leaving England in February 1980 he spent a month in Hong Kong, and then went on to mainland China for 8 weeks. His search for the picturesque landscape took him to Guangzhou (formerly Canton), Guilin (formerly Kweilin), notably for its dramatic backcloth of conical limestone mountains), Hangchow, Scoochow (best remaining Chinese gardens), Wushi, Nanking and Beijing. The trip produced fifty-nine watercolours.
This historic avenue of carved animals in Nanking, each some 20 feet high, stretches for about a mile towards the burial mound of the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
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