Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese soldier
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 228 millimetres (sheet) Width: 179 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier of Cochin China’; wearing a turban and carrying a gun, his right hand resting on a piece of masonry and palm trees and a body of water in the middle distance on the right; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.216-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441541_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “24 A Soldier of Cochin China. The people of this country universally wear turbans, & unlike the Chinese (to whom they are tributary) suffer the hair to grow in the greatest abundance, which they sometimes turn under the turban, the handle of the sword is of ivory, & the scabbard cover’d with fish-skin – “There is a plate of the same subject in Sir John Barrow, “A Voyage to Cochin China” in the Years 1792 and 1793″ (London, 1802); etched lettering below the image: “Drawn by W. Alexander” and “Engraved by T. Medland”. In this image, the soldier’s pose and costume are the same, but he appears much younger than that in the BM album. The background also differs, and includes other figures, in the illustration to Barrow’s book. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese soldier
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 228 millimetres (sheet) Width: 179 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier of Cochin China’; wearing a turban and carrying a gun, his right hand resting on a piece of masonry and palm trees and a body of water in the middle distance on the right; 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: “24 A Soldier of Cochin China. The people of this country universally wear turbans, & unlike the Chinese (to whom they are tributary) suffer the hair to grow in the greatest abundance, which they sometimes turn under the turban, the handle of the sword is of ivory, & the scabbard cover’d with fish-skin – “There is a plate of the same subject in Sir John Barrow, “A Voyage to Cochin China” in the Years 1792 and 1793″ (London, 1802); etched lettering below the image: “Drawn by W. Alexander” and “Engraved by T. Medland”. In this image, the soldier’s pose and costume are the same, but he appears much younger than that in the BM album. The background also differs, and includes other figures, in the illustration to Barrow’s book. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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