Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official litter/sedan chair
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 218 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin being transported in his sedan chair; four men carrying a Mandarin in an olive green sedan chair with silk tassels, by means of bamboo poles resting on their shoulders, across a landscape; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.235-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442077_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “43 Method of carrying Sedans – Vide D.o – – Page 73, vol. 2.d”Alexander’s illustration accompanies a discussion of the Legate who visited the Ambassador “almost every day…and with no inconsiderable pomp.” (Staunton, vol. 2, 1797, p. 73) The same drawing was also engraved for “An Historical Account”, with etched lettering under the image reading “Sansom sculp”. The sedan chair in this BM watercolour appears to have been used as a model for that in Plate 41 of “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; unusually, no engraved lettering under the image), and there is also another watercolour version of this drawing in the collection of the India Office Library, BL.For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official litter/sedan chair
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 218 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin being transported in his sedan chair; four men carrying a Mandarin in an olive green sedan chair with silk tassels, by means of bamboo poles resting on their shoulders, across a landscape; 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: “43 Method of carrying Sedans – Vide D.o – – Page 73, vol. 2.d”Alexander’s illustration accompanies a discussion of the Legate who visited the Ambassador “almost every day…and with no inconsiderable pomp.” (Staunton, vol. 2, 1797, p. 73) The same drawing was also engraved for “An Historical Account”, with etched lettering under the image reading “Sansom sculp”. The sedan chair in this BM watercolour appears to have been used as a model for that in Plate 41 of “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; unusually, no engraved lettering under the image), and there is also another watercolour version of this drawing in the collection of the India Office Library, BL.For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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