Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 236 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Two men wearing bad-weather clothing; a man on the left sat wrapped in fur coat and clutching a thin pipe, and another man standing on the right, in profile, leaning on a stick and wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a coat made from cajam leaves; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.225-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441573_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “33 Peasants equipped for cold or rainy weather, Vide the Costume of China, one of the plates having these figures.” Plate 30 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Aug.t 13 1801, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) depicts these two figures with the addition of another two in the right foreground, a soldier and his child sheltering under an umbrella. Alexander has also depicted the inclement weather conditions in the aquatint, unlike in this BM watercolour. In the accompanying text Alexander explains that the longer coat of the standing figure is made from straw and is completely waterproof, rain running off it in a manner analagous to water running off a duck’s feathers. The shorter coat over his shoulders is made from millet. The coat of the seated figure is reversible.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 236 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Two men wearing bad-weather clothing; a man on the left sat wrapped in fur coat and clutching a thin pipe, and another man standing on the right, in profile, leaning on a stick and wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a coat made from cajam leaves; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “33 Peasants equipped for cold or rainy weather, Vide the Costume of China, one of the plates having these figures.” Plate 30 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “W. Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Aug.t 13 1801, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) depicts these two figures with the addition of another two in the right foreground, a soldier and his child sheltering under an umbrella. Alexander has also depicted the inclement weather conditions in the aquatint, unlike in this BM watercolour. In the accompanying text Alexander explains that the longer coat of the standing figure is made from straw and is completely waterproof, rain running off it in a manner analagous to water running off a duck’s feathers. The shorter coat over his shoulders is made from millet. The coat of the seated figure is reversible.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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