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A Military Station / Costume of China

image © Trustees of the British Museum | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Date

1800

Artist

Print after William Alexander (1767-1816)

Collection

Image Link

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3226847

Additional Makers

Print maker - William Alexander; Publisher - George Nicol

Description

View of a military station in China; with a small group of soldiers drawn up on the bank of a river which flows on the right, with a building behind them and a wooden watch tower behind that, a man with a child in the left foreground and barges on the river. 1800. Hand-coloured soft-ground etching and aquatint.

Inscription

With etched lettering below the image 'Willm Alexander fect. / London Publish'd Octr. 19. 1800, by G & W. Nicol. Pallmall'

Image Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

China

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Medium

Tags

Military
Rivers
Stations

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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