Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A barge in which members of the Embassy travelled; with a smaller boat alongside it and multiple figures engaged in various activites; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.253-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01443196_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “61. An accommodation Barge, represented as tracked by men on Shore, Vide the same vessel with her sail set, in The Costume of China” Plate 4 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d July 20. 1797., by G. Nicol. Pallmall”), entitled “The Travelling Barge of Van-ta-zhin”. This barge, identified by Alexander as belonging to one of the mandarins who accompanied the embassy (see 1865,0520.197 for a portrait of him from the BM album) is much more highly-decorated than that in the BM drawing.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese boat/ship
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 234 millimetres (sheet) Width: 182 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A barge in which members of the Embassy travelled; with a smaller boat alongside it and multiple figures engaged in various activites; 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: “61. An accommodation Barge, represented as tracked by men on Shore, Vide the same vessel with her sail set, in The Costume of China” Plate 4 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering under image: “W. Alexander fecit” and “London Publish’d July 20. 1797., by G. Nicol. Pallmall”), entitled “The Travelling Barge of Van-ta-zhin”. This barge, identified by Alexander as belonging to one of the mandarins who accompanied the embassy (see 1865,0520.197 for a portrait of him from the BM album) is much more highly-decorated than that in the BM drawing.For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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