Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese standard-bearer
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A standard bearer; wearing a decorated overcoat and broad-brimmed hat with a spike, he carries a sword in a sheath in his left hand and holds the standard in his right; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.214-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441539_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “22 Portrait of one of the Soldiers who held banners, umbrellas, & other insignia of Chinese royalty, on a plain about 15 miles north of Pekin, where the Ambassador & suite went before sunrise of the 30.th of Sep.r 1793. to meet the Emperor on his return to Pekin from his summer residence in Tartary. Vide the Costume of China.”In Plate 24 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 19 1800, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) the standard held by the figure is different to that in this image, and nor does he have a beard. There are also some minor variations in the depiction of the costume. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese standard-bearer
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A standard bearer; wearing a decorated overcoat and broad-brimmed hat with a spike, he carries a sword in a sheath in his left hand and holds the standard in his right; 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: “22 Portrait of one of the Soldiers who held banners, umbrellas, & other insignia of Chinese royalty, on a plain about 15 miles north of Pekin, where the Ambassador & suite went before sunrise of the 30.th of Sep.r 1793. to meet the Emperor on his return to Pekin from his summer residence in Tartary. Vide the Costume of China.”In Plate 24 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 19 1800, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) the standard held by the figure is different to that in this image, and nor does he have a beard. There are also some minor variations in the depiction of the costume. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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