Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese temple prayer
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 218 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A small temple; a domestic-looking building behind and tree and haystack to the left, a number of figures including one on the right praying, prostrate, before the temple; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.248-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443104_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “56 A small temple or Joss house, with a Chinese prostrating, Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 36 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Published Oct.r 1.st 1803 by W. Miller Old Bond Street”), show a larger and more finished version of the small temple in the BM watercolour, set within a different landscape. The only figure in “The Costume of China” image is that of a Chinese man sat with legs crossed on the ground in front of the temple, gazing directly at the viewer.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese temple prayer
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 218 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A small temple; a domestic-looking building behind and tree and haystack to the left, a number of figures including one on the right praying, prostrate, before the temple; 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: “56 A small temple or Joss house, with a Chinese prostrating, Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 36 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Published Oct.r 1.st 1803 by W. Miller Old Bond Street”), show a larger and more finished version of the small temple in the BM watercolour, set within a different landscape. The only figure in “The Costume of China” image is that of a Chinese man sat with legs crossed on the ground in front of the temple, gazing directly at the viewer.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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