drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1865,0520.228
- Description
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'A Tartar boatwoman' and two children; a woman, in profile, seated on the ground facing left, a baby in a sling attached to her back and a small child grasping a flag stood in front of her, a basket on the ground in front of them; from an album of 82 drawings of China
Watercolour, ink and graphite
- Production date
- 1793-1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 443 millimetres (album cover)
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Height: 233 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 182 millimetres
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Width: 334 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a list of descriptions of the subjects inserted in the front of the album. This drawing is described as: "36. A Tartar boatWoman and her children, attaching infants to the back in a kind of bag is the general method of carrying children used by women whose employment is sculling or rowing Boats, the elder child has a sort of Flag for a toy,"
For further information about the album, see comment for 1865,0520.193.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992-3 Oct-Mar, BM, Britain's First View/China (ff.1,5,25,37,74; no cat.)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0520.228