Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker water supply irrigation
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Watering the rice fields; three men operating a wooden chain pump with their hands and feet, drawing water from a body of water in the immediate foreground with which to water the rice fields, the man on the far left simultaneously smoking a pipe; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.233-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441605_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “41 Method of watering Rice with a Chain pump, vide Sir Geo: Stauntons Account, Page 480, vol. 2.d”Staunton gives a long account of the development and use of the chain pump in China, stating that its primary difference to English chain pumps of the time resided in its chambers being square and not cylindrical.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker water supply irrigation
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Watering the rice fields; three men operating a wooden chain pump with their hands and feet, drawing water from a body of water in the immediate foreground with which to water the rice fields, the man on the far left simultaneously smoking a pipe; 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: “41 Method of watering Rice with a Chain pump, vide Sir Geo: Stauntons Account, Page 480, vol. 2.d”Staunton gives a long account of the development and use of the chain pump in China, stating that its primary difference to English chain pumps of the time resided in its chambers being square and not cylindrical.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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