MAIMATSCHIN RUSSIA 1792 ANONYMOUS ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW ANTIQUE COOPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW OF MAIMATSCHIN RUSSIA Condition: --not specified Ended: Sep 19, 2023 22:31:41 PDT Winning bid: US $9.99 MAIMATSCHIN RUSSIA 1792 ANONYMOUS ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW Description Veduta della cittа di MAIMATSCHIN sulla frontiera Chinese, col ruscello Kiachta, presa dall'Occidente. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual copper engraved view of the Chinese Frontier Town Maimatschin with the Brook Kiachta, taken from the West. The bird's eye view shows the walled town, with a pagoda at centre, two camels and one man standing by the gate in the centre foreground, mountains in the background Maimatschin ("trading town", for the Russians Kitaiskaya Sloboda, "Chinese town"), Chinese. Trading town on the Russian border, opposite Kiakhta. The town has a population of 3,000 (men only, as required by Chinese law), is shaped like a square and is surrounded by palisades. By treaty of 1727, border traffic was permitted here; But since the treaty ports were opened to foreigners and Kiachta lost the monopoly on importing Chinese tea into Russia, trade has declined more and more. Date: 1792 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 49,7 x 28,4 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet uncolored. Wide margins. Small foxing. Small marginal tears. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.