Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese tomb/mausoleum
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 211 millimetres (sheet) Width: 175 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The tomb of Colonel Cathcart in Java; with an overhanging palm tree and with a landscape background; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “75. The Monument of Col.l Cathcart, at Angere Point, on the Island of Java. Col.l Cathcart died during his mission to China in the straits of Banca, & was brought back to Angere P.t belonging to the Dutch, where he was interred June 16.th 1788.”Colonel Charles Allan Cathcart (1759-1788) was an MP and an army officer who was given charge of an abortive embassy to China in 1787; his death through consumption off the coast of Java on June 10 1788 resulted in the embassy returning to Britain without having reached their destination. The grave marker depicted by Alexander was made by the artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson who accompanied Cathcart. Alexander was a pupil of Ibbotsen’s, and it seems likely that the latter recommended the former for the commission of junior draftsman on the Macartney embassy.Alexander’s drawing of Ibbotsen’s monument was engraved by T. Medland for inclusion as Plate 9 in John Barrow’s “A Voyage to Cochin China” (1806), with a more developed background. Barrow informed his reader that the monument was only made of wood, and therefore he thought it pertinent to include an accurate depiction of it for the benefit of Cathcart’s “friends and relatives”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese tomb/mausoleum
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 211 millimetres (sheet) Width: 175 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The tomb of Colonel Cathcart in Java; with an overhanging palm tree and with a landscape background; 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: “75. The Monument of Col.l Cathcart, at Angere Point, on the Island of Java. Col.l Cathcart died during his mission to China in the straits of Banca, & was brought back to Angere P.t belonging to the Dutch, where he was interred June 16.th 1788.”Colonel Charles Allan Cathcart (1759-1788) was an MP and an army officer who was given charge of an abortive embassy to China in 1787; his death through consumption off the coast of Java on June 10 1788 resulted in the embassy returning to Britain without having reached their destination. The grave marker depicted by Alexander was made by the artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson who accompanied Cathcart. Alexander was a pupil of Ibbotsen’s, and it seems likely that the latter recommended the former for the commission of junior draftsman on the Macartney embassy.Alexander’s drawing of Ibbotsen’s monument was engraved by T. Medland for inclusion as Plate 9 in John Barrow’s “A Voyage to Cochin China” (1806), with a more developed background. Barrow informed his reader that the monument was only made of wood, and therefore he thought it pertinent to include an accurate depiction of it for the benefit of Cathcart’s “friends and relatives”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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