Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese child eating/drinking
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Three children in a landscape; one child on the left sat with a bowl at their feet and chopsticks in their right hand whilst two children to the right are standing, one facing the viewer and the other depicted from behind, holding hands; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.229-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441591_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “37 Children playing, The middle one is a Boy with a Calibash fasten’d to his Back, this contrivance frequently saves the lives of such children, as are brought up in Boats (which is the case of 1/4 part of the natives of that populous country) & the cover’d part of the Boats being of arched matting is the reason such accidents are not unfrequent.” For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese child eating/drinking
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Three children in a landscape; one child on the left sat with a bowl at their feet and chopsticks in their right hand whilst two children to the right are standing, one facing the viewer and the other depicted from behind, holding hands; 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: “37 Children playing, The middle one is a Boy with a Calibash fasten’d to his Back, this contrivance frequently saves the lives of such children, as are brought up in Boats (which is the case of 1/4 part of the natives of that populous country) & the cover’d part of the Boats being of arched matting is the reason such accidents are not unfrequent.” For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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