Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:soldier chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier in an undress’; wearing a long coat with big sleeves, decorated with a golden eagle in a circle on the chest, a cap on his head, long braid over his shoulder, holding a long stick in his right hand; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.207-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441363_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “15 A Soldier in an undress – Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 41 in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander. fecit.” and “London Published Jan.y 1.st 1804 by W. Miller Old Bond Street”) depicts a soldier with the same coat as that in this drawing; in this image, which is titled ‘A Soldier of Chu-San’, the soldier is set against a distant landscape and carries a matchlock gun. In the text accompanying the plates in “The Costume of China” relating to soldiers, Alexander’s remarks about the Chinese army are consistently and notably negative.There is also an example of a drawing by Alexander in this British Museum album showing a soldier in his full uniform. See 1865,0520.212.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:soldier chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘A Soldier in an undress’; wearing a long coat with big sleeves, decorated with a golden eagle in a circle on the chest, a cap on his head, long braid over his shoulder, holding a long stick in his right hand; 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: “15 A Soldier in an undress – Vide the Costume of China.”Plate 41 in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W Alexander. fecit.” and “London Published Jan.y 1.st 1804 by W. Miller Old Bond Street”) depicts a soldier with the same coat as that in this drawing; in this image, which is titled ‘A Soldier of Chu-San’, the soldier is set against a distant landscape and carries a matchlock gun. In the text accompanying the plates in “The Costume of China” relating to soldiers, Alexander’s remarks about the Chinese army are consistently and notably negative.There is also an example of a drawing by Alexander in this British Museum album showing a soldier in his full uniform. See 1865,0520.212.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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