Period:Unknown Production date:1796
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Dimensions:Height: 291 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 237 millimetres
Description:
Portrait; full-length seated directed to left, head turned towards the viewer, hands on the arm of his chair, left foot raised on a footstool, wearing a rich patterned gown decorated with an oval image of a dragon at the breast and small fur collar, a round hat with an upturned brim, soft boots and a long string of beads; on a flagged terrace with the balustrade in the background to left, a pillar behind the emperor’s chair and the wall decorated with panels of dragons; after Alexander; illustration to Alexander’s ‘Embassy’; filled-letter state. 1796 Etching and engraving
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Comments:Published in Sir G.L.Staunton’s “Authentic Account of Lord Macartney’s Embassy” London 1797.An etched version also appeared in Alexander’s ‘Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese’ which was published as a cheaper series by John Murray in 1814.A related watercolour is in BM P&D, dated 1796 (in an album at 198.c.01 PIV; 1865,0520.193-274). For information on the drawings, see Susan Legouix, ‘Image of China: William Alexander’ (London 1980), no. 45.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Dimensions:Height: 291 millimetres (trimmed) Width: 237 millimetres
Description:
Portrait; full-length seated directed to left, head turned towards the viewer, hands on the arm of his chair, left foot raised on a footstool, wearing a rich patterned gown decorated with an oval image of a dragon at the breast and small fur collar, a round hat with an upturned brim, soft boots and a long string of beads; on a flagged terrace with the balustrade in the background to left, a pillar behind the emperor’s chair and the wall decorated with panels of dragons; after Alexander; illustration to Alexander’s ‘Embassy’; filled-letter state. 1796 Etching and engraving
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Comments:Published in Sir G.L.Staunton’s “Authentic Account of Lord Macartney’s Embassy” London 1797.An etched version also appeared in Alexander’s ‘Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese’ which was published as a cheaper series by John Murray in 1814.A related watercolour is in BM P&D, dated 1796 (in an album at 198.c.01 PIV; 1865,0520.193-274). For information on the drawings, see Susan Legouix, ‘Image of China: William Alexander’ (London 1980), no. 45.
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