IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 185644 accession number: 4168.6 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 10 October 2011 updated: Thursday 28 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A watercolour drawing from the album 4168. This image depicts a Qing court lady standing beside a dark wooden table. The figure wears a court robe featuring multiple richly decorated layers - a dark outer robe with elaborate cloud and dragon motifs, colorful sleeves with floral patterns, and a blue pleated lower garment with wave designs and floral embroidery. She wears an ornate headdress decorated with blue and orange elements and dangling pearl ornaments, and jade earrings. She holds her belt in one hand and a handkerchief in the other. The lady stands beside a marble-topped table with dark wooden legs. On the table are several objects including a blue bowl filled with various fruits (pumpkins, melons, and grapes), a tall dark purple vase holding orchid, and a stack of books in a red box. A blue ceramic stool is positioned beneath the table. The painting is executed in the style typical of Chinese export art from around the late 18th or early 19th century, with careful attention to details in the clothing, furniture, and decorative objects. The style combines Chinese painting techniques with elements designed to appeal to Western tastes, particularly in the detailed rendering of the figure's sumptuous costume and the well-appointed interior setting. Previously described as "Woman, standing". title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185644 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, gold and silver on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper drawing CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Yunqua DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 336 dimension: Width units: mm value: 253 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4168_286_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 777 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_4168_286_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 660 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4168_286_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 777 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_4168_286_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/314/large_4168_6__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/314/mid_4168_6__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4168(6)_201106_amt49_mas.tif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/314/preview_4168_6__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/956/large_4168_6__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1351 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/956/mid_4168_6__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 660 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4168(6)_201106_amt49_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/956/preview_4168_6__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/956/4168_6__201106_amt49_dc1.ptif height: 4928 pixels width: 3735 pixels