Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese water supply
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 194 millimetres (sheet) Width: 170 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A large wooden waterwheel; with a building in the distance and a small figure standing in the foreground; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.268-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443520_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “N.o 76. A Wheel for supplying the rice fields with water. Vide Sir G: Stauntons Acc.t of the Embassy. Page 500. Vol 2.d”This watercolour by Alexander was engraved with no variations by William Skelton as Plate 44 of Staunton’s “Account”, a visual accompaniment to a long and complimentary account of the wheel’s engineering and uses in the second text volume. Lord Macartney’s journal reveals that he and his companions were so impressed with it that a model was made in addition to drawings of it. There is also a sketchier, much less-finished, version of the same subject in a volume in the India Office Library collection, BL, which Legouix suggets may have been Alexander’s first attempt at drawing the wheel (Legouix, 1980, p. 74).For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese water supply
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 194 millimetres (sheet) Width: 170 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A large wooden waterwheel; with a building in the distance and a small figure standing in the foreground; 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: “N.o 76. A Wheel for supplying the rice fields with water. Vide Sir G: Stauntons Acc.t of the Embassy. Page 500. Vol 2.d”This watercolour by Alexander was engraved with no variations by William Skelton as Plate 44 of Staunton’s “Account”, a visual accompaniment to a long and complimentary account of the wheel’s engineering and uses in the second text volume. Lord Macartney’s journal reveals that he and his companions were so impressed with it that a model was made in addition to drawings of it. There is also a sketchier, much less-finished, version of the same subject in a volume in the India Office Library collection, BL, which Legouix suggets may have been Alexander’s first attempt at drawing the wheel (Legouix, 1980, p. 74).For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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