Title
[Chinese pillory].
Creator
Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist.
Publication details
[1793]
Physical details
1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 23 x 17.3 cm, on support 27.5 x 21.5 cm
Description
A man sits under a tree with his head trapped in a Chinese pillory, watched by a young boy, another man, and an officer holding a whip; river and ships in the background. Signed with initials at bottom right. Pasted on mount with washlines.
Place
China
Additional information
Described as 'The punishment of the Cangue. This instrument is an immense block of wood like a square table with a hole in the middle in which the criminal's neck is put' in manuscript notes bound with the drawings. Reproduced in Sir George Staunton's Narrative of the Embassy, published in 1797 (plate 28). Another drawing of the same subject with an additional female figure on the left in BM collection (BM 1865,0520.198).
Other persons
Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806, patron.
Shelfmark
Maps 8 TAB.c.8.17.