{"id":27224,"date":"2025-05-07T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/china-grote-kanaal-william-alexander-1800\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:37:47","slug":"china-grand-canal-william-alexander-1800","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/city-views\/foreign-city-views\/china-grand-canal-william-alexander-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Grand Canal &#8211; Reinier Vinkeles after William Alexander, 1800-1801"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em><strong>Gezigt van het Meir Pao-Yng, daar het door een zwaaren Dijk van het Keizerlijk Kanaal afgescheiden is.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d (View of the lake Pao-Yng where it is separated from the Grand Canal by a heavy dike.)\u00a0Copper engraving by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reinier_Vinkeles\">Reinier Vinkeles<\/a> <\/strong>after a drawing by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Alexander_(painter)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>William Alexander<\/strong><\/a> (1767-1816 ) from the Dutch language edition of Lord Macartney&#8217;s account of the embassy to the Emperor of China in 1793 written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_George_Staunton,_1st_Baronet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sir George Leonard Staunton<\/strong><\/a> and published by <strong>Johannes Allard<\/strong> in <strong>1800-1801<\/strong>. Coloured by a later hand. Size (incl text): approx. 18 x 24 cm.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy was headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Macartney,_1st_Earl_Macartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macartney_Embassy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lord Macartney&#8217;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&#8217;s notes, by Staunton, of Chinese manners, customs and artifacts at the height of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qing_dynasty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qing dynasty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Staunton describes this particular scene as follows: \u201c<em>At this place the barges of the Embassy halted, while their large single masts were taken down and others erected in their stead, consisting each of two poles meeting together at the top, and extending at the bottom to each side of the vessel, where they turn on swivels, and may thus be lowered down speedily, so as<\/em> <em>to permit the barges to pass thro the arches of bridges, which are very frequent in the southern part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Canal_(China)\">grand canal<\/a>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 195,-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGezigt van het Meir Pao-Yng, daar het door een zwaaren Dijk van het Keizerlijk Kanaal afgescheiden is.\u201d (View of the lake Pao-Yng where it is separated from the Grand Canal by a heavy dike.)\u00a0Copper engraving by Reinier Vinkeles after a drawing by William Alexander (1767-1816 ) from the Dutch language edition of Lord Macartney&#8217;s account 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