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“Gezigt der Voorsteden eener Chineese Stad<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>” [View of the suburbs of a Chinese city.] Copper engraving by Reinier Vinkeles<\/a> <\/strong>after a drawing by William Alexander<\/strong><\/a> (1767-1816 ) from the Dutch language edition of Lord Macartney’s account of the embassy to the Emperor of China in 1793 written by Sir George Leonard Staunton<\/strong><\/a> and published by Johannes Allard<\/strong> in 1800-1801<\/strong>. Coloured by a later hand. Size (incl text): approx. 18 x 24 cm.<\/p>\n

The embassy was headed by Earl George Macartney<\/a> (1737-1806), who was dispatched to Beijing in 1792. He was accompanied by Staunton a medical doctor as his secretary, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Staunton\u2019s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassador\u2019s page. On the embassy\u2019s arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor.<\/p>\n

Lord Macartney’s embassy<\/a> was unsuccessful, the Chinese resisting British overtures to establish diplomatic relations in view of opening the vast Chinese realms to free trade, but it opened the way for future British missions, which would eventually lead to the first Opium War and the cession of Hong Kong to Britain in 1842. It also resulted in this invaluable account, prepared at government expense, largely from Lord Macartney’s notes, by Staunton, of Chinese manners, customs and artifacts at the height of the Qing dynasty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The engravings are of special interest because of their depiction of subjects that very few Europeans had heard of or seen, showing how advanced Chinese civilisation was on a technical, artistic and organizational level.<\/p>\n

Staunton describes this particular scene as follows: \u201cThe double roofed building on the right hand side of the print is a temple of religious worship. The small box supported on four poles, and ascended by a ladder, a look-out house, one of which is erected at almost every military post; and the building with the gateway thro it serves as a repository for arms, clothes, and other military stores. The method of fishing with a net stretched out by four pieces of bamboo, and suspended to a long pole, as in the hands of the figure sitting on the bank of the river in the fore-ground, is an universal practice throughout the empire.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Gezigt der Voorsteden eener Chineese Stad.” [View of the suburbs of a Chinese city.] Copper engraving by Reinier Vinkeles after a drawing by William Alexander (1767-1816 ) from the Dutch language edition of Lord Macartney’s account of the embassy to the Emperor of China in 1793 written by Sir George Leonard Staunton and published by […]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1401,1414],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27203","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"artist-alexander-william-1767-1816","7":"artist-vinkeles-reinier","8":"product_cat-city-views","9":"product_cat-foreign-city-views","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\nChina history Macartney Embassy antique print 18th century<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"China Macartney Embassy history 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