Morality tales or pleasing history: rediscovery of an 18th-century Douce Chinese album through digital discovery tools
Weston Library Broad Street, Oxford, England, United KingdomAbout this event Since its donation to the Bodleian Library by Francis Douce in 1834, an album of Chinese woodblock illustrations remained largely unidentified, vaguely labelled as 'daily stories and myths'. Recent research, enabled by the comparison of digital facsimiles and rare print editions, has finally identified the origin of these illustrations. The study reveals […]
