- Title
- [View on the banks of the River Peiho] / WA f.
- Creator
- Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist.
- Publication details
- [1793]
- Physical details
- 1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 32.6 x 47.7 cm, on support 39.3 x 56 cm
- Description
- Men and boys sitting on the banks of the Hai River, with fisherman in the foreground, temple on the left, and women and children watching outside a village in the background. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on verso: 'Figures on the Banks of the River as viewing the Ambassador's Barges &c'. Pasted on mount with washlines.
- Place
- Hebei Sheng (China)
- Additional information
- Described as 'Companion to [Maps 8.Tab.C.8.1.]. This drawing exhibits a group of figures collected together near a temple on the bank of a river' in manuscript notes bound with the drawings. Old record titled 'A colored view of figures on the banks of the river Peiho, [in Hebei Province], as viewing the Ambassador, barges, etc.; drawn by W. Alexander'. 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.8.2.
