Description
Signed. Dealer's label on frame: "Inscribed on old mount in an early hand 'At the point of junction of the Grand Canal with the River Euho stands the pagoda of Lin-tsin/Lord Macartney in his journal says from the town, or rather walled City, such myriads of inhabitants poured out to see us sail along, as quite astonished me, altho I have been so much accustomed to the sight of Chinese Populousness-' and in another hand 'Pagoda at Lin-Tsin-Fou on the banks of the Grand Canal, where it falls into the Eu-ho River. (21 Oct 1793)'.
Image Licence
© All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Courtesy of a private collector
Location
Sarira Pagoda, Linqing, Shandong Province, China
Country
China
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Lord Macartney's Embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, took place in 1793. William Alexander accompanied the embassy, and subsequently published numerous engravings based on his watercolours. A similar version of this composition is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art: https://www.watercolourworld.org/painting/city-lin-tsin-shantung-view-grand-canal-tww006841
