N/A. English: Drawing by William Alexander, draughtsman of the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793. A group of Chinese common people playing dice, including a husbandman with a hoe, and a boater with a metal gong to guide the trackers and warn the incoming canal boats in the foreground. Alexander noted that the Chinese were addicted to gaming, near everyone carried a pack of cards, or a set of dice. Cock-fighting, quail-fighting, and grillae-fighting (a large species of grasshopper) were also popular. Image taken from The Costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings, publish
N/A. English: Drawing by William Alexander, draughtsman of the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793. A group of Chinese common people playing dice, including a husbandman with a hoe, and a boater with a metal gong to guide the trackers and warn the incoming canal boats in the foreground. Alexander noted that the Chinese were addicted to gaming, near everyone carried a pack of cards, or a set of dice. Cock-fighting, quail-fighting, and grillae-fighting (a large species of grasshopper) were also popular. Image taken from The Costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings, published in London in 1805. circa 1800. William Alexander (1767–1816) Alternative names Mr. Alexander; W. Alexander Description English painter and drafter Date of birth/death 10 April 1767 23 July 1816 Location of birth/death Maidstone Maidstone Authority control : Q961465 VIAF: 46805708 ISNI: 0000 0001 0895 7948 ULAN: 500014977 LCCN: n81069035 NLA: 35147199 WorldCat 44 A GROUP OF PEASANTRY, WATERMEN, &c playing with Dice
Size: 2055px × 2432px
Photo credit: © The Picture Art Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., /., 1800., alexander, alt, circa, william
