The Ethnological Museum in Berlin holds a unique collection of 34 copper plates depicting Qing campaigns in the Western Regions (1755–1760). This area is usually referred to as the Western Regions (Xiyu 西域) in Chinese, and as ‘East Turkestan’ in contemporary European sources. Many works of art were produced at the imperial court to commemorate the successful subjugation; however, the copper plates were produced in Paris on the Emperor's orders. At that time, the French and German public were fascinated by China and followed the production of the copper plates with great interest.
Lavaulx-Vrécourt et al. (Thu,) studied this question.