Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese peasant/villager child
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 222 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Peasant and his Child’; a man seated on the ground grasping a small child, whose hands are on his arm but who is twisting away from him, around the waist; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.227-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442076_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “35 A Peasant and his Child – Vide the Costume of China D.o – [lighter ink but seemingly the same handwriting] these figures are in one of the plates.” Plate 2 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d July 20.1797, by G Nicol Pallmall”) entitled ‘A Peasant with his Wife and Family’. The figures in the BM drawing are the two on the far left in the plate in “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese peasant/villager child
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 222 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Peasant and his Child’; a man seated on the ground grasping a small child, whose hands are on his arm but who is twisting away from him, around the 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 described as: “35 A Peasant and his Child – Vide the Costume of China D.o – [lighter ink but seemingly the same handwriting] these figures are in one of the plates.” Plate 2 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d July 20.1797, by G Nicol Pallmall”) entitled ‘A Peasant with his Wife and Family’. The figures in the BM drawing are the two on the far left in the plate in “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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