An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen

William Alexander British

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In 1792 Alexander was appointed as draftsman to accompany the British embassy to the emperor's court in Peking, led by Lord Macartney. After returning to England in 1794, the artist illustrated the official report, and several publications of his own, with this drawing of a Chinese bowman engraved for plate 20 in "The Costume of China, or Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Chinese" (1805).

An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen, William Alexander (British, Maidstone, Kent 1767–1816 Maidstone, Kent), Watercolor over graphite

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