Image of View of the banks of the Pei ho River. A group

View of the banks of the Pei ho River. A group of men tied up with...

IMAGE number: BL3308620
Image title: View of the banks of the Pei ho River. A group of men tied up with a rope pull barges up the Hai River while walking along its bank, where groups of women and children sit watching under the trees. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on verso: 'Chinese Figures tracking the Junks of the Embassy & people assembled to see it pass. Banks of the river Pay-ho Oct.r 1793'. Pasted on mount with washlines. Described as 'View of Men tracking the barges against the stream of the Pei ho, and a group of women on a height assembled to see the Embassador pass'.
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: [A collection of eighty views, maps, portraits and drawings illustrative of the Embassy sent to China under George, Earl of Macartney, in 1793; drawn chiefly by William Alexander, some by Sir John Barrow, Bart, some by Sir Henry Woodbine Parish, and one by William Gomm. Many of them are engraved in Sir George Staunton's Narrative of the Embassy, published in 1797.] Author: Alexander, William / Illustrator: Alexander, William [1793-1794]. Source/Shelfmark: Maps 8.Tab.C.8.11 1 drawing: watercolour; sheet 30 x 39.7 cm, on support 38.1 x 54.3 cm.
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: China / Asia / large group of people / asia / group of people / colours / people / watercolour / 18th century / color / nationality / ethnicity / chinese / colour / painting

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