Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship labourer/manual worker
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 240 millimetres (sheet) Width: 193 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A group of trackers pulling a ship; six men pulling on ropes in pairs alongside a body of water; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.232-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441603_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “40 Figures in the act of tracking the Vessels, Vide the Costume of China, in a Plate of trackers at dinner”That referred to in the list entry transcribed above is Plate 6 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 12.1797, by G Nicol Pallmall”) entitled ‘A Group of Trackers of the Vessels, at Dinner’. In the accompanying text Alexander gives details about the action of ‘tracking’ a vessel and the costume worn and food eaten by such labourers. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship labourer/manual worker
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 240 millimetres (sheet) Width: 193 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A group of trackers pulling a ship; six men pulling on ropes in pairs alongside a body of water; 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: “40 Figures in the act of tracking the Vessels, Vide the Costume of China, in a Plate of trackers at dinner”That referred to in the list entry transcribed above is Plate 6 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 12.1797, by G Nicol Pallmall”) entitled ‘A Group of Trackers of the Vessels, at Dinner’. In the accompanying text Alexander gives details about the action of ‘tracking’ a vessel and the costume worn and food eaten by such labourers. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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