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English: Chinese emperor. "Chien Lung Ta Whang Tee/ Tchien Lung the great emperor". T'chien Lung or Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799)
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George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801); Lord George Macartney (1737-1806); Erasmus Gower (1742-1806): An authentic account of an embassy from the king of Great Britain to the emperor of China, including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chines Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan in the East India Company's service to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe, with notices of several places where they stopped in their way out and home ... / taken chiefly from the papers of the earl of Macartney, Erasmus Gower and other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy by George Staunton.

Publisher: London : printed for G. Nicol
institution QS:P195,Q3046797
Author W. Alexander design
Joseph Collyer (1748–1827)  wikidata:Q6282206
 
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Joseph Collyer the Younger
Description English engraver and illustrator
Date of birth/death 14 September 1748 Edit this at Wikidata 24 December 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1765 Edit this at Wikidata–1827 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6282206
engraver to Her Majesty
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Qianlong Emperor

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Tchien Lung the great emperor (English)

乾隆大皇帝 (Traditional Chinese)

TCHIEN LUNG TA WHANG TEE (undetermined language)

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