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1. Add MS 33931

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Add MS 33931
Title:
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS made by Sir John Barrow, Bart., William Alexander, Samuel Daniell, and Captain Henry William Parish, R.A., on the Embassy to China under Earl Macartney in 1792-93. Some were engraved for Sir George Staunton's Account of an Embassy to China (London, 1797), some for Sir John Barrow's Travels in China (London, 1804), and some for his Voyage to Cochin China (London, 1806). The volume also contains engravings of some of the drawings; and, at the beginning, portraits of Lord Maca...
Scope & Content:
George Macartney, Baron (1776) and Earl Macartney 1794: Drawings by members of his embassy to China: 1792-93. Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet; Second Secretary to the Admiralty: Drawings, on Lord Macartney's embassy to China: 1792-1793. Topography Collections of Drawings: Drawings by Sir J. Barro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 35300

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Add MS 35300
Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. I. Drawings by William Alexander and Samuel Daniell
Scope & Content:
37 watercolour drawings, made for the most part in 1792-3 on Lord Macartney's embassy to China (see also Add MS 33931), the rest on a mission with Sir John Barrow in southern Africa in 1801-2. Many of them have been engraved, either for Sir John Barrow's Voyage to Cochinchina (1806, containing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792-1802
Extent:

1 volume (37 folios)