Chinese musical instruments, Qing dynasty.. Chinese female musician playing percussion 1, two-string Erhu (violin) 2, flutes 3, three-string guickin and four-string Pipa (guitars) 4, seven-string zither Tsen or Zheng 5, Hien-lo gongs 6, drum 7, drum 8, wooden fish drum 9, various trumpets 10, and bamboo reed instrument Sing or Sheng 11. Copied from an illustration by Antoine Cardon in Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's La Chine en miniature, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815.
Chinese musical instruments, Qing dynasty.. Chinese female musician playing percussion 1, two-string Erhu (violin) 2, flutes 3, three-string guickin and four-string Pipa (guitars) 4, seven-string zither Tsen or Zheng 5, Hien-lo gongs 6, drum 7, drum 8, wooden fish drum 9, various trumpets 10, and bamboo reed instrument Sing or Sheng 11. Copied from an illustration by Antoine Cardon in Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's La Chine en miniature, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815.