Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official costume/clothing chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of Qiao Renjie (喬人傑), a Mandarin of the civil department in his ceremonial dress; full-length, wearing a hat with a peacock feather, a string of beads around his neck and with a scroll held aloft in his left hand, standing by a large block of masonry to the left, boat on a body of water and mountain in the right far distance; from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album; print study BM-1865-0520.200-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/01428421_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is listed as: “8 Portrait of Chou-ta-zhin, (a Mandarin of the civil department) who was one of the mandarins appointed by the Emperor to conduct the Embassy through the Empire & is delienated in his habit of ceremony.”Legouix states that Alexander depicted Chou with a scroll in his hand “as a mark of his capacity as a man of letters rather than a soldier.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 48).Plate 21 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d Dec.r 1.st 1799, by G. and W. Nicol, Pall mall”) shows a full-length portrait of Chou-Ta-Zhin but with the following variations: on the far left is a soil mound with a grassy top; the colour of the mandarin’s robe is blue rather than purple and his underskirt is patterned differently; the distant landscape on the right-hand side includes two mountains and buildings, and the boat on the water has a tall sail. Legouix wrote that “a man was ennobled to the rank of mandarin in recognition of meretorious service to his country either in a civil or military capacity. In the reign of Ch’ien-lung [Qianlong] the eight different classes of mandarin could be distinguished by the style and colour of the buttons on the top of their caps, which ranged from smooth red coral for the first order to engraved gilt brass for the eighth.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 54). For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.The following information correcting the identification of the sitter was provided by Professor Henrietta Harrison (email 7 October 2013). The subject of this picture is Qiao Renjie (喬人傑). At this time he was the Tianjin daotai. Further information on him can be found in: Liu Wenbing 劉文炳. Xugou xian zhi [Xugou county gazetteer] 徐溝縣志. Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 1992; Haocun Qiao shi jiapu 郝村喬氏家譜 [The genealogy of the Qiao family of Hao village]. Np., 2005.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:official costume/clothing chinese
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Portrait of Qiao Renjie (喬人傑), a Mandarin of the civil department in his ceremonial dress; full-length, wearing a hat with a peacock feather, a string of beads around his neck and with a scroll held aloft in his left hand, standing by a large block of masonry to the left, boat on a body of water and mountain in the right far distance; 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 listed as: “8 Portrait of Chou-ta-zhin, (a Mandarin of the civil department) who was one of the mandarins appointed by the Emperor to conduct the Embassy through the Empire & is delienated in his habit of ceremony.”Legouix states that Alexander depicted Chou with a scroll in his hand “as a mark of his capacity as a man of letters rather than a soldier.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 48).Plate 21 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d Dec.r 1.st 1799, by G. and W. Nicol, Pall mall”) shows a full-length portrait of Chou-Ta-Zhin but with the following variations: on the far left is a soil mound with a grassy top; the colour of the mandarin’s robe is blue rather than purple and his underskirt is patterned differently; the distant landscape on the right-hand side includes two mountains and buildings, and the boat on the water has a tall sail. Legouix wrote that “a man was ennobled to the rank of mandarin in recognition of meretorious service to his country either in a civil or military capacity. In the reign of Ch’ien-lung [Qianlong] the eight different classes of mandarin could be distinguished by the style and colour of the buttons on the top of their caps, which ranged from smooth red coral for the first order to engraved gilt brass for the eighth.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 54). For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.The following information correcting the identification of the sitter was provided by Professor Henrietta Harrison (email 7 October 2013). The subject of this picture is Qiao Renjie (喬人傑). At this time he was the Tianjin daotai. Further information on him can be found in: Liu Wenbing 劉文炳. Xugou xian zhi [Xugou county gazetteer] 徐溝縣志. Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 1992; Haocun Qiao shi jiapu 郝村喬氏家譜 [The genealogy of the Qiao family of Hao village]. Np., 2005.
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