Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese bridge
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A multitude of figures on a partially-ruined bridge; two figures in a boat in the foreground; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.243-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443090_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “51 Ruins of a Bridge at San-cien-wey, a Town about 20 Miles distant from the City Tong-tchcou, where the Embassy finish’d their journey up the Pay-ho, Many people were assembled on this ruin to have a full view of the Embassy.” There are numerous references in both Alexander’s unpublished travel journal (BL) and the various published accounts of the Embassy to the interest it incited amongst the Chinese as its members travelled through the country.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese bridge
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A multitude of figures on a partially-ruined bridge; two figures in a boat 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: “51 Ruins of a Bridge at San-cien-wey, a Town about 20 Miles distant from the City Tong-tchcou, where the Embassy finish’d their journey up the Pay-ho, Many people were assembled on this ruin to have a full view of the Embassy.” There are numerous references in both Alexander’s unpublished travel journal (BL) and the various published accounts of the Embassy to the interest it incited amongst the Chinese as its members travelled through the country.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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