Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official costume/clothing chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of the Purveyor to the Embassy; full-length, wearing a hat, black boots and a sheepskin cape over his silk robe; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.201-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01428422_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “9 Portrait of the Comprador or purveyor for the Embassy while at Macao. Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 9 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d May 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) is the same full-length portrait of the purveyor but depicts him carrying a wooden box (Alexander’s text reveals that the box contained sweetmeats, a jar of which the purveyor gave to the members of the Embassy as a token of his regard) and with the addition of a distant landscape (buildings on the left; a mountain and body of water with boats on the right). The physiognomy is slightly different, but this is probably due to the transformation from watercolour to print. There is a three-quarter-length unfinished portrait sketch for the “Costume of China” acquatint in the British Museum collection; see 1863,0110.246.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official costume/clothing chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of the Purveyor to the Embassy; full-length, wearing a hat, black boots and a sheepskin cape over his silk robe; 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: “9 Portrait of the Comprador or purveyor for the Embassy while at Macao. Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 9 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d May 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) is the same full-length portrait of the purveyor but depicts him carrying a wooden box (Alexander’s text reveals that the box contained sweetmeats, a jar of which the purveyor gave to the members of the Embassy as a token of his regard) and with the addition of a distant landscape (buildings on the left; a mountain and body of water with boats on the right). The physiognomy is slightly different, but this is probably due to the transformation from watercolour to print. There is a three-quarter-length unfinished portrait sketch for the “Costume of China” acquatint in the British Museum collection; see 1863,0110.246.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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