Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese bridge boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 214 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese bridge; with a boat in the foreground approaching it and figures on and around it; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.249-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443105_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “57 a Chinese Bridge, near Sou-tchou, for description, Vide Sir G: Stauntons Acc.t Page 425. Vol. 2.d.” Plate 7 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Publish’d Oct.r 12.th 1797 by G: Nicol, Pallmall,”), depicts a very similar bridge, though this image is Embassy-specific; Alexander relates that the “temporary ornament”, shown in the plate on top of the bridge and flanked on the left by six soldiers, was “erected in compliment to the Embassador[sic].” The engraving of a bridge in Staunton’s “Account” referenced by Alexander is different again, and succeeds a description of the different styles of bridges seen in China.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese bridge boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 214 millimetres (sheet) Width: 180 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese bridge; with a boat in the foreground approaching it and figures on and around it; 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: “57 a Chinese Bridge, near Sou-tchou, for description, Vide Sir G: Stauntons Acc.t Page 425. Vol. 2.d.” Plate 7 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W Alexander fecit” and “London. Publish’d Oct.r 12.th 1797 by G: Nicol, Pallmall,”), depicts a very similar bridge, though this image is Embassy-specific; Alexander relates that the “temporary ornament”, shown in the plate on top of the bridge and flanked on the left by six soldiers, was “erected in compliment to the Embassador[sic].” The engraving of a bridge in Staunton’s “Account” referenced by Alexander is different again, and succeeds a description of the different styles of bridges seen in China.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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