Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:soldier chinese tartar
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Tartar soldier in his common dress; full-length, with a flag, bow and arrows; 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: “10 A Tartar Soldier in his common Dress… Vide D.o [Costume of China].”Plate 33 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d Jan.y 1.st 1802, by G. and W. Nicoll[sic], Pall mall”) has an almost-identical title as this drawing but has considerable differences, particularly in terms of the colouring, details of the costume and the inclusion of a much more detailed landscape setting. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:soldier chinese tartar
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 235 millimetres (sheet) Width: 183 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
Tartar soldier in his common dress; full-length, with a flag, bow and arrows; 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: “10 A Tartar Soldier in his common Dress… Vide D.o [Costume of China].”Plate 33 (aquatint) in “The Costume of China” (published 1805; etched lettering below the image: “London Publish’d Jan.y 1.st 1802, by G. and W. Nicoll[sic], Pall mall”) has an almost-identical title as this drawing but has considerable differences, particularly in terms of the colouring, details of the costume and the inclusion of a much more detailed landscape setting. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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