Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese military
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 181 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A military post; in a landscape setting with figures; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
IMG
![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.252-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443108_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “60 A military Post. Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 27 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (etched lettering under image: “Will.m Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 19, 1800, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) depicts a military station as seen from the left (rather than from the right as in the BM watercolour) and includes many more figures, other buildings and a boat travelling along a canal in the left foreground. Alexander informs the reaader that the tall wooden structure (on the right in the BM watercolour) is a look-out house, and the five white objects on the ground (on the right in the BM watercolour) are “cones of plastered brickwork, out of which certain combustibles are said to be fired, in times of alarm from invasion or insurrection.”For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese military
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 181 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A military post; in a landscape setting with figures; 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: “60 A military Post. Vide the Costume of China.” Plate 27 (aquatint) of “The Costume of China” (etched lettering under image: “Will.m Alexander fec.t” and “London Publish’d Oct.r 19, 1800, by G & W. Nicol Pallmall”) depicts a military station as seen from the left (rather than from the right as in the BM watercolour) and includes many more figures, other buildings and a boat travelling along a canal in the left foreground. Alexander informs the reaader that the tall wooden structure (on the right in the BM watercolour) is a look-out house, and the five white objects on the ground (on the right in the BM watercolour) are “cones of plastered brickwork, out of which certain combustibles are said to be fired, in times of alarm from invasion or insurrection.”For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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