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View on the banks of the River Peiho.
Figures sitting on the banks of the Hai...
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BL3308612
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View on the banks of the River Peiho.
Figures sitting on the banks of the Hai River, with man pushing a barge in the foreground and three men beating a fourth with bamboo canes, watched by a crowd outside city-walls in the background. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on verso: 'Banks of the River. Figures looking at the Ambassador's vessels. Punishment of Bambooing is executed in the Back Ground'. Pasted on mount with washlines.
Described as 'A Group of figures on an eminence assembled together to see the Embassador pass during which a punishment of the bamboo is inflicted. The indifference of some of the Bye-standers contrasted with the humiliating postures of others, on this occasion, and the women peeping over the walls that enclose their buildings, are highly characteristic'.
[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
Source/Shelfmark: Maps 8.Tab.C.8.1
1 drawing: watercolour; sheet 32.8 x 47.9 cm, on support 38.6 x 54.1 cm.
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From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images