COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader_Chinese_Drawings_46
Reference Number:
Chinese Drawings 46
Series Title:
Crawford Chinese Collection: Illustrations
Parent Work Title:
Twelve paintings of the Court and Society
Date Created:
19th century
Description:
Colourful ‘export art’ portraits of the imperial couple Daoguang and Xiao Jing Cheng and members of the court. 12 watercolours on pith, mounted on paper.
Subject:
Art, Chinese
Subject:
Costume--China
Subject:
Clothing and dress
Subject:
China--Social life and customs
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Painting (image-making)
Medium:
Watercolour (paint)
Support:
Pith paper
Style Period:
Qing Dynasty
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
China
People Covered:
Daoguang, Emperor of China, 1782-1850
People Covered:
Xiao Jing Cheng, Empress of China, 1812-1855
Item Height:
340 mm
Item Width:
240 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Zheng Yaying and John B. W. Deane, Handlist of the Chinese Collections in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (1991), revised and expanded by Johannes S. Lotze
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2020-02-27
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2021-09
Educational Notes:
Qing: China's multilingual empire exhibition
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Collection Code:
Rylands