Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:cleric chinese lama
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Bonze or Chinese Priest; in a long yellow robe with sheafs of paper in his right hand and a wide-brimmed hat in his left; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.205-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01428427_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “13 A Priest or Bonze of China. Vide D.o [Costume of China].”Plate 13 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander. fecit.” and “London Publish’d Sep.t 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) of the same subject. In this instance the drawing is titled a portrait of a Lama or Bonze and the physignomy and pose of the priest are different; in the print his face is shown in profile and a landscape setting has been added. In the accompaying text, Alexander informs his reader that the yellow robe identifies this priest as one from the temple of Poo-ta-la, situated near the Imperial residence at Zhe-hol. The building in the distance on the left in this plate appears to match that identified as the temple of Poo-ta-la drawn by Alexander and engraved by B.T. Pouncy as a plate in Staunton’s “Account” (vol. 3, 1797). Plate 11 in “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Habits of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Published Jan.y 1814, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street”) illustrates a bonze (in a pink-coloured robe) with a parasol over his left shoulder in place of his holding the sheaf of papers. This difference ties in with the accompanying text, as Alexander informs his reader that the English umbrella derived from that of the Chinese depicted here.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:cleric chinese lama
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Bonze or Chinese Priest; in a long yellow robe with sheafs of paper in his right hand and a wide-brimmed hat in his left; 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 listed as: “13 A Priest or Bonze of China. Vide D.o [Costume of China].”Plate 13 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander. fecit.” and “London Publish’d Sep.t 1.st 1798, by G. Nicol, Pall mall”) of the same subject. In this instance the drawing is titled a portrait of a Lama or Bonze and the physignomy and pose of the priest are different; in the print his face is shown in profile and a landscape setting has been added. In the accompaying text, Alexander informs his reader that the yellow robe identifies this priest as one from the temple of Poo-ta-la, situated near the Imperial residence at Zhe-hol. The building in the distance on the left in this plate appears to match that identified as the temple of Poo-ta-la drawn by Alexander and engraved by B.T. Pouncy as a plate in Staunton’s “Account” (vol. 3, 1797). Plate 11 in “Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Habits of the Chinese” (published 1814; etched lettering below the image: “Published Jan.y 1814, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street”) illustrates a bonze (in a pink-coloured robe) with a parasol over his left shoulder in place of his holding the sheaf of papers. This difference ties in with the accompanying text, as Alexander informs his reader that the English umbrella derived from that of the Chinese depicted here.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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