Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 181 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese compass and a wooden anchor; two detailed studies on the same page; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.274-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443517_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “81. AChinese Compass, & an Anchor of Wood. The Compass is described in Sir Geo: Staunton’s Acc.t. in Page 441 of Vol. 1.st The Anchor is made of a pondorous wood, strongly lark’d together & the points of the flukes are cupp’d with Iron, these anchors are in general use for vessels of 300 Tons & under -.” Alexander’s drawing of the compass is accompanied, in volume 1 of Staunton’s “Account”, by a long segment of text explicating the manufacture and use of Chinese compasses, and the meaning of the characters decorating them.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 181 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese compass and a wooden anchor; two detailed studies on the same page; 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: “81. AChinese Compass, & an Anchor of Wood. The Compass is described in Sir Geo: Staunton’s Acc.t. in Page 441 of Vol. 1.st The Anchor is made of a pondorous wood, strongly lark’d together & the points of the flukes are cupp’d with Iron, these anchors are in general use for vessels of 300 Tons & under -.” Alexander’s drawing of the compass is accompanied, in volume 1 of Staunton’s “Account”, by a long segment of text explicating the manufacture and use of Chinese compasses, and the meaning of the characters decorating them.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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