Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese personal accessory servant/domestic worker official
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 232 millimetres (sheet) Width: 186 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Lady of Rank & her Servant’; a woman in a long decorated robe holding a fan being shaded by a female servant holding a parasol over her head; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.226-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441574_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “34 A Mandarins Wife & her Servant. Vide the Costume of China, Ditto -” Plate 14 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Sep.t 1.st 1798, by G Nicol Pallmall”) depicts these two figures with the addition of one another, the son of the lady who holds his wrist. The colouring of the women’s clothing differs in the aquatint, and there are minor variations in their hairstyles.This watercolour is related to 1865,0520.222 which Alexander appears to have also drawn on for Plate 14 of “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese personal accessory servant/domestic worker official
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 232 millimetres (sheet) Width: 186 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Lady of Rank & her Servant’; a woman in a long decorated robe holding a fan being shaded by a female servant holding a parasol over her head; 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: “34 A Mandarins Wife & her Servant. Vide the Costume of China, Ditto -” Plate 14 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Sep.t 1.st 1798, by G Nicol Pallmall”) depicts these two figures with the addition of one another, the son of the lady who holds his wrist. The colouring of the women’s clothing differs in the aquatint, and there are minor variations in their hairstyles.This watercolour is related to 1865,0520.222 which Alexander appears to have also drawn on for Plate 14 of “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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