Stock ID #177643 View of one of the Western Gates of the City of Pekin. [caption title]. EMBASSY TO CHINA - BEIJNG, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, J. DADLEY, ENGRAVER.

View of one of the Western Gates of the City of Pekin. [caption title]

London. G. Nicol. April 12, 1796. Stock ID #177643

Large format engraving 23.7 x 35.4 cm; 35.5 x 45.4 cm (sheet including caption and platemark), spots of browning to the image (affecting the sky) and marginal foxing, corners a little browned, the sheet a little dusty, but a strong dark impression in very good condition.

Fine detailed engraving after a drawing by the artist William Alexander (1767-1816), prepared as plate 20 for the folio atlas to George Staunton's account of the Macartney Embassy to China of 1793.

From the Estate of the late collector and scholar, Arthur Hacker.

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Price: $750.00 AU

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