Manchu Officials with four additional drawings of birds: 4169

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Manchu Officials with four additional drawings of birds

Maker(s)

Youqua

Entities

Album

Description

Folios bound in soft-back covers, with silk brocade and ties

Album containing 16 watercolours on pith paper (including 4 loose folios)

Measurements and weight

Height: 337 mm
Width: 250 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1909) by Bothamley, Rev. H.

Note

Export album made for the Western market

School or Style

Chinese

Components of the work

Support composed of paper silk

Identification numbers

Accession number: 4169
Primary reference Number: 185535
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Monday 26 September 2011 Updated: Monday 25 July 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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