Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese soldier
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier in a common Dress’; wearing a helmet and armed with a matchlock gun; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.215-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441540_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “N.o 23 A Soldier in a common dress. The Chinese are so much attach’d to old customs, that they use this rude instrument, the Matchlock with a rest, in preference to an English musket, which people of their ingenuity might easily copy from ours & of which they must tacitly acknowledge the superiority, a great part if the Chinese army wear the point of the sabre forwards, which they draw from behind very adroitly, the upper part of the helmet is of iron, & the box worn in front with a face painted on it, contains ammunition &c -“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: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier in a common Dress’; wearing a helmet and armed with a matchlock gun; 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: “N.o 23 A Soldier in a common dress. The Chinese are so much attach’d to old customs, that they use this rude instrument, the Matchlock with a rest, in preference to an English musket, which people of their ingenuity might easily copy from ours & of which they must tacitly acknowledge the superiority, a great part if the Chinese army wear the point of the sabre forwards, which they draw from behind very adroitly, the upper part of the helmet is of iron, & the box worn in front with a face painted on it, contains ammunition &c -“For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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