Period:Unknown Production date:1742-1757
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:costume/clothing chinese merchant/shopkeeper
Dimensions:Height: 220 millimetres Width: 196 millimetres
Description:
Costume studies for Chambers’s Designs of Chinese Buildings, etc. 1757, Plate XXI; two figures, one clothed in the winter, and the other in the summer dress of “merchants and other persons of note” Black chalk (?)
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![图片[1]-drawing; print study BM-1962-0714.19-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00271101_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-drawing; print study BM-1962-0714.19-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_PDB3366.jpg)
Comments:A drawing for, or taken from, plate XXI of William Chambers, ‘Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses etc.’, London, 1757. See 1937, 1021.1.1-21. In the same technique and style as a drawing for the same plate now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. David Bindman argues that despite both drawings being in the same direction as the engraving, they are in Chambers’s hand, noting that Chambers’s volume included ‘sketches and measures taken by me at Canton some years ago’.Chambers travelled to the Far East as a merchant in his youth in 1742-49. In 1748 he made a study of Chinese life and architecture that provided material for his book. See David Bindman, ‘British Drawings by Artists born before 1900’, Copenhagen 2008, no.26, pp. 49-50. Also see John Harris’s monograph on the architect.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:costume/clothing chinese merchant/shopkeeper
Dimensions:Height: 220 millimetres Width: 196 millimetres
Description:
Costume studies for Chambers’s Designs of Chinese Buildings, etc. 1757, Plate XXI; two figures, one clothed in the winter, and the other in the summer dress of “merchants and other persons of note” Black chalk (?)
IMG
Comments:A drawing for, or taken from, plate XXI of William Chambers, ‘Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses etc.’, London, 1757. See 1937, 1021.1.1-21. In the same technique and style as a drawing for the same plate now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. David Bindman argues that despite both drawings being in the same direction as the engraving, they are in Chambers’s hand, noting that Chambers’s volume included ‘sketches and measures taken by me at Canton some years ago’.Chambers travelled to the Far East as a merchant in his youth in 1742-49. In 1748 he made a study of Chinese life and architecture that provided material for his book. See David Bindman, ‘British Drawings by Artists born before 1900’, Copenhagen 2008, no.26, pp. 49-50. Also see John Harris’s monograph on the architect.
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