Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese arms/armour
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Various Warlike Instruments’ and the head of a helmeted soldier, in profile; a swivel gun used on warships, a bow and case, arrows in a quiver, decorated shield, sword and matchlock; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.270-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_PDB393185.jpg)
![图片[2]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.270-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443515_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “78. various warlike instruments. – Vide Sir Geo: Stauntons Acc.t in the Folio Vol of Plates, Plate 19.th”This drawing was engraved – in a horizontal format and with some alterations in the arrangement of the individual items – by Thomas Medland as Plate 19 in Staunton’s “Account” with the following key given below the image: “INSTRUMENTS of WAR used by the CHINESE. / 1. A Swivel Gun used in Ships of War / 2. A Bow and Case / 3. A Quiver and Arrows / 4. A Helmet / 5. A Shield used by the Corps called Tygers of War / 6. A Sword used by the same / 7. A Match-lock [each object numbered]”.For Alexander’s drawing of a “Tyger of War”, see 1865,0520.204.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese arms/armour
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
‘Various Warlike Instruments’ and the head of a helmeted soldier, in profile; a swivel gun used on warships, a bow and case, arrows in a quiver, decorated shield, sword and matchlock; 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: “78. various warlike instruments. – Vide Sir Geo: Stauntons Acc.t in the Folio Vol of Plates, Plate 19.th”This drawing was engraved – in a horizontal format and with some alterations in the arrangement of the individual items – by Thomas Medland as Plate 19 in Staunton’s “Account” with the following key given below the image: “INSTRUMENTS of WAR used by the CHINESE. / 1. A Swivel Gun used in Ships of War / 2. A Bow and Case / 3. A Quiver and Arrows / 4. A Helmet / 5. A Shield used by the Corps called Tygers of War / 6. A Sword used by the same / 7. A Match-lock [each object numbered]”.For Alexander’s drawing of a “Tyger of War”, see 1865,0520.204.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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