Title
[View of the banks of the Pei ho River] / WA f.
Creator
Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist.
Publication details
[1793]
Physical details
1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 30 x 39.7 cm, on support 38.1 x 54.3 cm
Description
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.
Place
Hai River (China)
Additional information
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' 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.8.11.