Period:Unknown Production date:1798
Materials:paper
Technique:aquatint, soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 264 millimetres (trimmed?) Width: 323 millimetres
Description:
View of boat passing over an inclined plane, near Ning Po; a Chinese barge tilted up on a gravelled slope and preparing to descend the slope on the other side into the water in the foreground, with men turning large winches on set up on the bank to either side, others in three boats moored in front in the right forergound and houses in the background. 1798 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching and aquatint
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![图片[1]-print BM-1899-0713.73-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00768905_001.jpg)
Comments:See 1899,0713.77This is plate IX in the series and is fully discussed with quotations from Alexander’s journal in Susan Legouix, ‘The Image of China: William Alexander’ (London 1980), no. 59, p. 73
Materials:paper
Technique:aquatint, soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 264 millimetres (trimmed?) Width: 323 millimetres
Description:
View of boat passing over an inclined plane, near Ning Po; a Chinese barge tilted up on a gravelled slope and preparing to descend the slope on the other side into the water in the foreground, with men turning large winches on set up on the bank to either side, others in three boats moored in front in the right forergound and houses in the background. 1798 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching and aquatint
IMG
Comments:See 1899,0713.77This is plate IX in the series and is fully discussed with quotations from Alexander’s journal in Susan Legouix, ‘The Image of China: William Alexander’ (London 1980), no. 59, p. 73
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