Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese self-portrait rock/mineral
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 185 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Remarkable Rock in Tartary’; a hilly landscape with two small figures in the foreground with their backs to the viewer, one is seated, wears a top hat and appears to have a sheet of paper in front of him, possibly a self-portrait or a portrait of Captain Parish on whose original drawing this watercolour is based, a tall thin rock on top of a hill is in the centre distance; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.238-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442080_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “46. An extraordinary rock in Tartary from a sketch by Cap.n Parish, Vide Ditto- D.o- Page, 204 vol. 2.d”The engraving in Staunton’s “Account” (engraved lettering under image: “W Alexander del” and “H(?) Ellis Scul”) differs substantially from the BM watercolour with the inclusion of a boat with a tall mast on a body of water in the foreground and what appears to be a house on the left near bank.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese self-portrait rock/mineral
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 185 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Remarkable Rock in Tartary’; a hilly landscape with two small figures in the foreground with their backs to the viewer, one is seated, wears a top hat and appears to have a sheet of paper in front of him, possibly a self-portrait or a portrait of Captain Parish on whose original drawing this watercolour is based, a tall thin rock on top of a hill is in the centre distance; 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: “46. An extraordinary rock in Tartary from a sketch by Cap.n Parish, Vide Ditto- D.o- Page, 204 vol. 2.d”The engraving in Staunton’s “Account” (engraved lettering under image: “W Alexander del” and “H(?) Ellis Scul”) differs substantially from the BM watercolour with the inclusion of a boat with a tall mast on a body of water in the foreground and what appears to be a house on the left near bank.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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