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	Titel Original watercolour drawing of Cornelis Pronk's famous "chinoiserie" design "Lady feeding birds and maid-servant holding parasol", serving as the model for the Jingdezhen porcelain plates (*). Shelfmark 21755
	Titel Woodblock print: "Gusu minguyuan Shizilin", "The Famous Lion Grove Garden at Gusu (=Suzhou)]". Western influence shown by linear perspective. Suzhou print, dated 1764. Shelfmark 22710
	Titel Four line drawings: "Gebruiken van wellevendheid / Wohlstandsgebräuche", based on Japanese pictures, illustrating social customs and rules of propriety. 1 (below left) greeting; 2 (below right) offering and accepting a present; 3 (above left) audience; 4 Shelfmark 22999
	Titel Engraving: boats on the river near Ôsaka, and a "daimyô" with his large retinue proceeding on the road along the river. Shelfmark 20016
	Titel Black-and-white woodblock print: an illustrated handbill of the Edo instrument maker's workshop of Ôno Kishû, offering various astronomical and surveying instruments. The Ôno firm also supplied the observatory of the "Bakufu" with equipment. Shelfmark 22551
	Titel Litho: "Reisgereedschap / Reisegeraethschaft", two closed sedan chairs and various kinds of trunks and boxes used in travelling. Shelfmark 22979
	Titel Album painting: the Yoshida Shrine in Kyôto, from a Japanese album. It was used as model for the copper engraving in "History of Japan" (*), where it is wrongly called the "Ise Shrine". Shelfmark 23051
	Titel Woodblock print, stencilled colours: "Oranda-jin zu", "Dutchmen"; two Dutchmen, one holding a pipe and one carrying a little dog, standing in front of the flagpole with Dutch flag at Deshima. Nagasaki print. Shelfmark 21265
	Titel Screen, detail: the arrival of a Portuguese carrack, the unloading of merchandise and presents, and the meeting of Portuguese, Japanese and Jesuit middlemen. The "Capitan Major" is seated in front of a painted screen. The left-hand screen of a pair of six Shelfmark 21033
	Titel Painting: a European woman spinning a thread. By Ishikawa Tairô, signed with his Dutch pen-name "Tafelberg" (Table Mountain). Shelfmark 21078
	Titel Japanese world map, the two hemispheres. The peculiar shapes of California, Korea and Australia show that it was still based on the old world maps of Blaeu (1648) or Blaeu/Visscher (1678 *), although at that time far more accurate European maps were avail Shelfmark 22539
	Titel Copperplate print: the crucifixion of the Japanese convert Dominicus. From Nicolas Trigault, "De Christianis apud Iaponios Triumphis" (Munich, 1623), p. 464. Shelfmark 21193
	Titel A small pewter tobacco box, the lid decorated with a circular silver plaque representing a Dutchman "en relief", and a circle of glass beads around the portrait. Shelfmark 20875
	Titel Copperplate etching: view from Mimeguri Shrine at Edo. Wide river with scattered boats, a dike on which people are strolling along the waterside, cloudy sky. In the distance the smoke from the kilns at Imado. Shiba Kokan, dated 1783. One of Kokan's first, Shelfmark 21695
	Titel Woodblock print: "Oranda uki-e" "Perspective Picture of Holland", by Utagawa Kuninaga, showing a fantastic kind of "Dutch stone architecture" combined with tropical trees. The building is based on (some Chinese version of) the "Dianae Templum" on the lowe Shelfmark 20339
	Titel Painting: a European woman holding a struggling boy, talking to a gentleman wearing a long cloak; he is holding a walking stick shaped like a caduceus staff, and he also is wearing the winged shoes of the god Mercurius. In the background a ship in a wide Shelfmark 22586
	Titel Portrait, detail: the very realistic rendering of the face of the "rangaku" scholar and chief interpreter Yoshio Kôgyû [1724-1800], assistant to Carl Peter Thunberg, and founder of the western-style "Yoshio School" of surgery. By Araki Jogen. Shelfmark 22443
	Titel Map, detail: central third of Deshima with sizes of the various buildings, their status indicated by different colours (). Main street, bridge. Situation of 1786-1798 (*). Shelfmark 22040
	Titel Book illustration: two pictures illustrating the shadows thrown by upright poles in various positions in relation to the sun. No.1: gebouw wordt geheel van de oostzijde belicht, parallel, niet uit het middelpunt van de zon. No.2: wijst dat h Shelfmark 22736
	Titel Simple wooden transit compass or theodolite, used for measuring horizontal and vertical angles in surveying. Shelfmark 22547