Period:Unknown Production date:1800
Materials:paper
Technique:aquatint, soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 364 millimetres Width: 498 millimetres
Description:
View of a military station in China; with a small group of soldiers drawn up on the bank of a river which flows on the right, with a building behind them and a wooden watch tower behind that, a man with a child in the left foreground and barges on the river. 1800 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching and aquatint
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Comments:The ‘Costume of China’ was a series of forty-eight aquatints executed by Alexander himself and accompanied by his explanatory captions. This appeared as a bound volume in 1805, published by William Miller at 6 guineas, in which form it is best known. However, the prints were produced in sets of four at three-monthly intervals, between 20 July 1797 and 1 November 1804, which makes the earliest plates contemporaneous with the illustrations for Staunton’s ‘Authentic Account’. Two states are known, before and with aquatint. The Nicol publication line appears on impressions in BM P&D.For more information, see Abbey Travel and Susan Legouix, ‘Image of China: William Alexander’, London 1980, p. 15 ff
Materials:paper
Technique:aquatint, soft-ground etching, hand-coloured,
Dimensions:Height: 364 millimetres Width: 498 millimetres
Description:
View of a military station in China; with a small group of soldiers drawn up on the bank of a river which flows on the right, with a building behind them and a wooden watch tower behind that, a man with a child in the left foreground and barges on the river. 1800 Hand-coloured soft-ground etching and aquatint
IMG
Comments:The ‘Costume of China’ was a series of forty-eight aquatints executed by Alexander himself and accompanied by his explanatory captions. This appeared as a bound volume in 1805, published by William Miller at 6 guineas, in which form it is best known. However, the prints were produced in sets of four at three-monthly intervals, between 20 July 1797 and 1 November 1804, which makes the earliest plates contemporaneous with the illustrations for Staunton’s ‘Authentic Account’. Two states are known, before and with aquatint. The Nicol publication line appears on impressions in BM P&D.For more information, see Abbey Travel and Susan Legouix, ‘Image of China: William Alexander’, London 1980, p. 15 ff
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