Image of Portrait of a Chinese man. Chinese man portrayed full-length facing front,

Portrait of a Chinese man. Chinese man portrayed full-length facing front, sitting on a bench dressed...

IMAGE number: BL3308632
Image title: Portrait of a Chinese man. Chinese man portrayed full-length facing front, sitting on a bench dressed in a long fur-coat and cap and smoking a long pipe, with tobacco bag on the left and trees and shipmast in the background. Pasted on mount with washlines.
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: [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.8.46 1 drawing: watercolour, ink and graphite; sheet 37 x 23.6 cm, on support 42.6 x 29.2 cm.
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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	Dimension [pixels]	Dimension in 300dpi [mm]	File size [MB]
Large	5456 × 8211 px	462 × 695 mm	30.1 MB
Medium	681 × 1024 px	58 × 87 mm	837 KB

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