Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official punishment chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 215 millimetres (sheet) Width: 302 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The Tcha or Cangue: a depiction of a man in stocks that are chained to a tree in a rural setting; a variety of other figures, including the magistrates’ assistant, and a view of a river in the right middle distance; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.198-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01428419_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “6. The Tcha or Cangue, a punishment of common use in China. Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 10 – entitled “Punishment of the Cangue” – in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander fecit / London Publish’d May 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) depicts a different scene from that in this album. In “The Costume of China”, the perpetrator is again wearing the collar of wood around his neck, but in this instance his left hand is that confined within the collar, and he is being led barefoot along a road by a man identified by Alexander as the “magistrates’ assistant”, presumably either to or from the location at which his punishment would be carried out. Alexander’s description reveals that the Cangue scene in the BM album depicts the offender in the midst of his daily punishment, the duration of which was equated to the severity of the crime; the magistrates’ assistant would lead the offender to a public spot where they had to endure the reprimands and hostility of passers-by.There is yet another depiction of the same punishment – differing from both those described above – as Plate 39 in Alexander’s later “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Published Jan.y 1814 by J. Murray, Albemarle Street.”). Engraved, with differences, by John Hall as Plate 28 in Staunton’s “Account”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official punishment chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 215 millimetres (sheet) Width: 302 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The Tcha or Cangue: a depiction of a man in stocks that are chained to a tree in a rural setting; a variety of other figures, including the magistrates’ assistant, and a view of a river in the right middle distance; 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: “6. The Tcha or Cangue, a punishment of common use in China. Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 10 – entitled “Punishment of the Cangue” – in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander fecit / London Publish’d May 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) depicts a different scene from that in this album. In “The Costume of China”, the perpetrator is again wearing the collar of wood around his neck, but in this instance his left hand is that confined within the collar, and he is being led barefoot along a road by a man identified by Alexander as the “magistrates’ assistant”, presumably either to or from the location at which his punishment would be carried out. Alexander’s description reveals that the Cangue scene in the BM album depicts the offender in the midst of his daily punishment, the duration of which was equated to the severity of the crime; the magistrates’ assistant would lead the offender to a public spot where they had to endure the reprimands and hostility of passers-by.There is yet another depiction of the same punishment – differing from both those described above – as Plate 39 in Alexander’s later “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Published Jan.y 1814 by J. Murray, Albemarle Street.”). Engraved, with differences, by John Hall as Plate 28 in Staunton’s “Account”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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