Receiving Surrender from the Eli: from Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Regions, with Imperial Poems
Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian, 1688–1766)
c. 1765–74; poem dated 1755
- Medium
- etching, mounted in album form, 16 leaves plus two additional leaves of inscriptions
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Overall: 51 x 87 cm (20 1/16 x 34 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This set of etchings was commissioned by Emperor Qianlong to record in pictorial terms the courage of his generals and soldiers in quelling the rebellions in the Western Regions. Qianlong added his own poem to each of the etchings, indicating his appreciation and pride in this demonstration of military might. "Western Regions" refers to the present-day Xingjiang province, often described in Western writing as "Central Asia."
