drawing; album BM-1865-0520.211

Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres

Description:
A middle-class Chinese man; wearing a long blue patterned tunic (belted at the waist) over a white underdress and black boots, a long braid over his right shoulder and holding a hat – possibly a summer cap with dyed horsehair – behind his back; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.211-China Archive

Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “19 A Chinese of the middle class, on the front of the Girdle they generally wear some ornament as a piece of Agate mounted in [illegible] or any other device according to the fancy of the wearer.”For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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