Portrait of a Chinese Soldier. Chinese soldier standing full-length facing front, wearing plumed helmet and holding a rifle over his shoulder and a sword hanging from his belt, with landscape in the background. Signed with initials at bottom left and pasted on mount with washlines. [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.]. 1793. 1 drawing : watercolour, ink and graphite ; sheet 20.5 x 16.5 cm, on support 26.4 x 22.5 cm. Source: Maps 8 TAB.c.8.50.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1767-1816)

Portrait of a Chinese Soldier. Chinese soldier standing full-length facing front, wearing plumed helmet and holding a rifle over his shoulder and a sword hanging from his belt, with landscape in the background. Signed with initials at bottom left and pasted on mount with washlines. [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.]. 1793. 1 drawing : watercolour, ink and graphite ; sheet 20.5 x 16.5 cm, on support 26.4 x 22.5 cm. Source: Maps 8 TAB.c.8.50.

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