Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese architecture
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 185 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A tower near Tianjin; three figures on a boat float past a crenellated tower against which another figure is leaning; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.241-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01442083_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “49 A Tower near the City of Tien-Sin, This Tower was 35 feet in height & is engraved by Hollar in Nieuhoffs Account of a Dutch Embassy to China which took place about 140 years ago – Vide the Costume of China – “Plate 19 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: (very faint) “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d March 1.st 1799, by G Nicol Pallmall”), in which there is a more developed background and additional boats on the water .For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese architecture
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 185 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A tower near Tianjin; three figures on a boat float past a crenellated tower against which another figure is leaning; 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: “49 A Tower near the City of Tien-Sin, This Tower was 35 feet in height & is engraved by Hollar in Nieuhoffs Account of a Dutch Embassy to China which took place about 140 years ago – Vide the Costume of China – “Plate 19 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: (very faint) “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d March 1.st 1799, by G Nicol Pallmall”), in which there is a more developed background and additional boats on the water .For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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