Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official attendant smoking
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin and his servant; the mandarin is seated cross-legged and smoking a pipe on the right, his servant standing holding a cushion on the left; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.223-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441560_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “31 A Mandarin & his Servant, Tho’ Chairs are commonly us’d in China, yet the Chinese sometimes sit on their hams in the manner of the Turks, the Servant bears a Cushion in his hand for the use of his Master – ” For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese official attendant smoking
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 233 millimetres (sheet) Width: 184 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A Mandarin and his servant; the mandarin is seated cross-legged and smoking a pipe on the right, his servant standing holding a cushion on the left; 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: “31 A Mandarin & his Servant, Tho’ Chairs are commonly us’d in China, yet the Chinese sometimes sit on their hams in the manner of the Turks, the Servant bears a Cushion in his hand for the use of his Master – ” For further contextual information about mandarins, see 1865,0520.200.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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