The Defeat of Chief Uš-Turfan and his City 1774 Pierre Philippe Choffard This print depicts the submission of Houo-tsi-sseu of Uš-Turfan within an encampment of tents and yurts, surrounded by a palisade. Inside the encampment an official receives tribute from Mongol prisoners and in the far distance is the fortified city of Uš-Turfan.Part of a set of sixteen, "The Defeat of Chief Uš-Turfan and his City" 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

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The Defeat of Chief Uš-Turfan and his City 1774 Pierre Philippe Choffard This print depicts the submission of Houo-tsi-sseu of Uš-Turfan within an encampment of tents and yurts, surrounded by a palisade. Inside the encampment an official receives tribute from Mongol prisoners and in the far distance is the fortified city of Uš-Turfan.Part of a set of sixteen, "The Defeat of Chief Uš-Turfan and his City" 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

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