View of the Pei ho River

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Framed Print of 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

BL3308620 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 and 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'.; British Library, London, UK; (add.info.: [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.); From the British Library archive.
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Chinese River Scene , Asian Watercolour Art , Macartney Embassy China Art , Pei Ho River Landscape , Chinese Embassy View , William Alexander Watercolour , Asian Group Portrait Painting , British Library Fine Art China

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