Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 237 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A labourer; facing right and pointing ahead with his left hand; wearing a cap on his head and with jacket unfastened, revealing his bare torso, holding a pipe in his left hand and a tobacco pouch suspended from his waist; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.213-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441538_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “21 A Labourer or Peasant, This small scull[sic] cap of silk is frequently worn by the middle and lower orders of the people. the trowsers[sic] are of cotton with a Jacket of Nankeen, he has likewise his pipe with a purse attach’d to it for tobacco.”For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 237 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A labourer; facing right and pointing ahead with his left hand; wearing a cap on his head and with jacket unfastened, revealing his bare torso, holding a pipe in his left hand and a tobacco pouch suspended from his waist; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “21 A Labourer or Peasant, This small scull[sic] cap of silk is frequently worn by the middle and lower orders of the people. the trowsers[sic] are of cotton with a Jacket of Nankeen, he has likewise his pipe with a purse attach’d to it for tobacco.”For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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