Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin in full court dress; wearing a cap with dyed horsehair suspended from the crown, a long string of beads around his neck and carrying a long tobacco pipe in his left hand; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.210-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441369_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “18. A Mandarin with the summer Cap in his Dress of ceremony, which is worn on all public occasions, as Birth day of the Emperor, Feast of the new Year &c &c &c -“Plate 5 of “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Pub.d Jan 1814, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street”) has the same title as that given on the inscription of the album leaf for this drawing, but in the print the Mandarin is depicted smoking, his costume is patterned and coloured differently and he wears a different hat. For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin in full court dress; wearing a cap with dyed horsehair suspended from the crown, a long string of beads around his neck and carrying a long tobacco pipe in his left hand; 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: “18. A Mandarin with the summer Cap in his Dress of ceremony, which is worn on all public occasions, as Birth day of the Emperor, Feast of the new Year &c &c &c -“Plate 5 of “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Pub.d Jan 1814, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street”) has the same title as that given on the inscription of the album leaf for this drawing, but in the print the Mandarin is depicted smoking, his costume is patterned and coloured differently and he wears a different hat. For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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