- Title
- [View of the city Teu-tcheou foo, taken from the Hindostan at anchor in the streight of Mi-a-tau] / WA f.
- Creator
- Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist.
- Publication details
- [1793]
- Physical details
- 1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 26.5 x 47.6 cm, on support 34.9 x 54.4 cm
- Description
- Two English ships and some Chines barges sailing in the Bohai Sea near the port of Penglai. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on verso: 'View of Port of the City of Ten-cheou-fou. July 21st, 1793'. Pasted on mount with washlines.
- Place
- Penglai Xian (China)
- Additional information
- Described as 'A distant view of the City Teu-tcheou foo, taken from the Hindostan at anchor in the streight of Mi-a-tau, a harbour of some note among the Chinese' in manuscript notes bound with the drawings. Many views in this series were reproduced in Sir George Staunton's Narrative of the Embassy, published in 1797.
- Other persons
- Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806, patron.
- Shelfmark
- Maps 8 TAB.c.8.10.
