Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese pagoda
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 232 millimetres (sheet) Width: 179 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Pagoda; set in a landscape with figures and, on the right, another building; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.242-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442084_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “50 A Pagoda, or Taa. For description, Vide the Costume of China. “Alexander was presumably referring in the description given above to Plate 31 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: (very faint) “W. Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Aug.t 13. 1801, by G and W. Nicol. Pallmall”), although this depicts a different, much shorter, pagoda. At the end of the accompanying text the image is dated: “The figures dressed in loose gowns, are priests, attending at the temple and the back ground, is a view of the city Tin-hai, Nov. 21, 1793.” The BM drawings show no indications of the religious function of pagodas, which Alexander stresses in “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese pagoda
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 232 millimetres (sheet) Width: 179 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Pagoda; set in a landscape with figures and, on the right, another building; 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: “50 A Pagoda, or Taa. For description, Vide the Costume of China. “Alexander was presumably referring in the description given above to Plate 31 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: (very faint) “W. Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Aug.t 13. 1801, by G and W. Nicol. Pallmall”), although this depicts a different, much shorter, pagoda. At the end of the accompanying text the image is dated: “The figures dressed in loose gowns, are priests, attending at the temple and the back ground, is a view of the city Tin-hai, Nov. 21, 1793.” The BM drawings show no indications of the religious function of pagodas, which Alexander stresses in “The Costume of China”.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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