Plate 82: Fishing with nets, from "A New Book of Chinese Designs"
Etched and published by Matthias Darly British
Artist and publisher George Edwards British
Not on view
Plate 82 of 'A New Book of Chinese Designs', consisting of a title page, index, and 120 plates, etched and published in 1754 by the British caricaturist, printseller and ornamental engraver Matthew Darly, in collaboration with George Edwards. The book consists of a variety of ornamental and costume designs of Chinese inspiration, some of them copies of the original works (including the title).
This plate represents a landscape with a man fishing with nets. On the center of the composition, two intersecting trunks with bunches of leaves stand on a piece of land, and a large tree, incluned towards the left, provides shadow to a fisherman on a canoe, who holds a fishing net in his hands. On the right side, behind a small fence, is another man, looking towards the water. Thin clouds are on the upper part of the composition.
