Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A ship used to carry members and baggage of the embassy; figures engaged in various activities on the ship and a small boat being towed behind; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.259-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443208_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “67 One of the vessels, which convey’d the persons of the Embassy, Presents, Baggage &c from the last anchorage to the Pay-ho. Vide the Costume.” Plate 40 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Published Sep.t 1:st 1803. by W. Miller Old Bond Street.”). With the exception of variations in the placement and number of the figures and colour of some of the flags, the ship in this plate is a direct copy of that in the BM watercolour. In the print there are also additional boats. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A ship used to carry members and baggage of the embassy; figures engaged in various activities on the ship and a small boat being towed behind; 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: “67 One of the vessels, which convey’d the persons of the Embassy, Presents, Baggage &c from the last anchorage to the Pay-ho. Vide the Costume.” Plate 40 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Published Sep.t 1:st 1803. by W. Miller Old Bond Street.”). With the exception of variations in the placement and number of the figures and colour of some of the flags, the ship in this plate is a direct copy of that in the BM watercolour. In the print there are also additional boats. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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