Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese arch/gateway
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 236 millimetres (sheet) Width: 188 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese triumphal arch; three figures in the foreground, a boat on a body of water on the right and distant buildings in the background; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.239-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442081_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “47 A triumphal Arch, These buildings are erected in honour of anyone who has deserved well of his Country, Magistrates who have executed the duties of their high offices with justice & integrity frequently atchieve[sic] this high honour, which at the same time serves as a stimulus to their successors.”Plate 35 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “London Published Jan.y 1.st 1802 by G and W Nicoll Pallmall”) depicts a triumphal arch, different from that in this drawing, which Alexander states was drawn “near the city of Ning-po, Nov. 17, 1793”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese arch/gateway
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 236 millimetres (sheet) Width: 188 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese triumphal arch; three figures in the foreground, a boat on a body of water on the right and distant buildings in the 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: “47 A triumphal Arch, These buildings are erected in honour of anyone who has deserved well of his Country, Magistrates who have executed the duties of their high offices with justice & integrity frequently atchieve[sic] this high honour, which at the same time serves as a stimulus to their successors.”Plate 35 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “London Published Jan.y 1.st 1802 by G and W Nicoll Pallmall”) depicts a triumphal arch, different from that in this drawing, which Alexander states was drawn “near the city of Ning-po, Nov. 17, 1793”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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