Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker food/drink
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Method of bruising rice’; a man operating by foot a wooden machine to crush rice contained in a bowl, distant landscape background; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.234-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442075_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “42 Method for bruising Rice in families – vide Ditto – – Page 395, vol. 2.d”Alexander’s illustration actually appears on page 397 in the second volume of Staunton’s “Account”, with etched lettering under the image reading ‘W. Alexander delin.t’ and ‘J. Pass sculp’. There a couple of minor variations between the figure in the print and that in the BM watercolour; in the former, the man has a moustache and his braid is over his left rather than right shoulder. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese labourer/manual worker food/drink
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Method of bruising rice’; a man operating by foot a wooden machine to crush rice contained in a bowl, distant landscape background; 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: “42 Method for bruising Rice in families – vide Ditto – – Page 395, vol. 2.d”Alexander’s illustration actually appears on page 397 in the second volume of Staunton’s “Account”, with etched lettering under the image reading ‘W. Alexander delin.t’ and ‘J. Pass sculp’. There a couple of minor variations between the figure in the print and that in the BM watercolour; in the former, the man has a moustache and his braid is over his left rather than right shoulder. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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