The Battle of Tonguzluq 1773 Augustin de Saint-Aubin This print depicts the 1758 Battle of Tonguzluq with Qing soldiers firing cannons and using guns and arrows to attack the enemy within a fortified encampement filled with tents and yurts; outside the encampement, Qing soldiers set fire to enemy turrets and take prisoners.Part of a set of sixteen, "The Battle of Tonguzluq" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets re

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The Battle of Tonguzluq 1773 Augustin de Saint-Aubin This print depicts the 1758 Battle of Tonguzluq with Qing soldiers firing cannons and using guns and arrows to attack the enemy within a fortified encampement filled with tents and yurts; outside the encampement, Qing soldiers set fire to enemy turrets and take prisoners.Part of a set of sixteen, "The Battle of Tonguzluq" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets re

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