Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official domestic building
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 231 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The House of a Mandarin; buildings set behind a wall with a gatehouse and two tall posts either side, a figure with a bag slung over his shoulder approaching on foot and figures on a boat on a body of water in the foreground ; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.250-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443106_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “58. The habitation of a Mandarin. – Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 23 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Published Dec.r 1.st 1799 by G: Nicol, Pallmall”) illustrates more edifices within the wall than in the BM drawing, in addition to showing flags flying from the flagpoles. Alexander informs his reader that these distinguish the habitation of a mandarin. “The Costume of China” plate also contains more boats on the body of water and different figures. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official domestic building
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 231 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
The House of a Mandarin; buildings set behind a wall with a gatehouse and two tall posts either side, a figure with a bag slung over his shoulder approaching on foot and figures on a boat on a body of water in the foreground ; 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: “58. The habitation of a Mandarin. – Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 23 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Published Dec.r 1.st 1799 by G: Nicol, Pallmall”) illustrates more edifices within the wall than in the BM drawing, in addition to showing flags flying from the flagpoles. Alexander informs his reader that these distinguish the habitation of a mandarin. “The Costume of China” plate also contains more boats on the body of water and different figures. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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