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Thomas Allom (13 March 1804 – 21 October 1872) was an English architect, artist, and topographical illustrator. He was a founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). [ 1 ]
Cards based on xiangqi (also known as Chinese chess) appeared during the nineteenth century. They clearly are more recent than money-suited and domino Chinese playing cards. Classical Chinese encyclopedias seem to ignore them. [17] Could they have appeared after the ban on playing cards in the Great Qing Legal Code of 1740, as a 'substitute'?
English: Illustration from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor illustrated…, With an historical Account of Constantinople, and Descriptions of the Plates…, London/Paris, Fisher, Son & Co. (1836-38), by Robert Walsh and Thomas Allom
Entrance of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. This is a list of handprint ceremonies for the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Los Angeles, California (originally "Grauman's Chinese Theatre"). Footprints and signatures are also included, and in some cases imprints of other objects:
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
Beijing National Art Museum of China. China/Avant-Garde Exhibition is one of the most significant exhibitions in the history of Chinese contemporary Opening on February 5, 1989 at the National Art Museum of China (formerly the National Art Gallery), and featured over 186 artists and approximately 300 artworks from all over China.
View from Coopers Hill, with Runnemede and Windsor Castle engraved by E.Radclyffe after a picture by Thomas Allom published in 1842 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , a line engraving by Edward Radclyffe, Wellcome
Prosperous Suzhou (simplified Chinese: 姑苏 繁华 图; traditional Chinese: 姑蘇 繁華 圖; pinyin: Gūsū Fánhuá Tú), originally entitled Burgeoning Life in a Resplendent Age (simplified Chinese: 盛世 滋生 图; traditional Chinese: 盛世 滋生 圖; pinyin: Shèngshì Zīshēng Tú), is an 18th-century scroll painting created in 1759 by the Chinese court painter Xu Yang.