Image of Mandarin on horseback. A Mandarin wearing a cape over his tunic

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IMAGE number: BL3308668
Image title: Mandarin on horseback. A Mandarin wearing a cape over his tunic and boots rides to left on a paved road carrying two scrolls across his shoulders, with two assistants and their horses standing by the road and figures watching from the fields in the background. Pasted on mount with washlines and annotated in pencil on verso: 'The Mandarin Carrying the Emperor's letter to the King of England from Pekin to Tongseou'.
Location: British Library, London, UK
Medium: watercolour

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.8.81. 1 drawing: watercolour, ink and graphite; sheet 27.7 x 37.5 cm, on support 36.3 x 53 cm.
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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