Period:Unknown Production date:1793-1796
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese eating/drinking music
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 202 millimetres (sheet) Width: 168 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A group of boatmen preparing for dinner; three men sat around a small vessell with smoke billowing from it, the man on the far left on his haunches and with hands clasped together (in prayer?); from an album of 82 drawings of China Watercolour, ink and graphite
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![图片[1]-drawing; album BM-1865-0520.230-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01441600_001.jpg)
Comments:There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: “38 a Group of Boatmen, with a fire for their Cooking. one of them has an instrument of music call’d by europeans a Gong lying by him, these loud instruments are used on board the vessels to give notice to the trackers, when to pull or to desist, the latter being often necessary among the amazing concourse of boats on the canals, when they are in danger of running foul of each other,” A related drawing of this subject, which was in the collection of a Dr. J. Percy in the late- nineteenth century, was very recently (June 2013) sold at Sotheby’s. This drawing is signed and dated in the lower left corner “W. Alexander 1793”, and Legoiux categorised it as “one of the minority of finished drawings by Alexander which are authentically dated during the period of the embassy.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 29) In this drawing one figure is depicted smoking and another holding a pipe, and in the far right distance is a faint cityscape which Sotheby’s identified as The Bridge Pagoda, Shanghai. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Subjects:chinese eating/drinking music
Dimensions:Height: 443 millimetres (album cover) Height: 202 millimetres (sheet) Width: 168 millimetres Width: 334 millimetres
Description:
A group of boatmen preparing for dinner; three men sat around a small vessell with smoke billowing from it, the man on the far left on his haunches and with hands clasped together (in prayer?); 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: “38 a Group of Boatmen, with a fire for their Cooking. one of them has an instrument of music call’d by europeans a Gong lying by him, these loud instruments are used on board the vessels to give notice to the trackers, when to pull or to desist, the latter being often necessary among the amazing concourse of boats on the canals, when they are in danger of running foul of each other,” A related drawing of this subject, which was in the collection of a Dr. J. Percy in the late- nineteenth century, was very recently (June 2013) sold at Sotheby’s. This drawing is signed and dated in the lower left corner “W. Alexander 1793”, and Legoiux categorised it as “one of the minority of finished drawings by Alexander which are authentically dated during the period of the embassy.” (Legouix, 1980, p. 29) In this drawing one figure is depicted smoking and another holding a pipe, and in the far right distance is a faint cityscape which Sotheby’s identified as The Bridge Pagoda, Shanghai. For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
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