VIEW_OF_A_CASTLE,_Near_the_City_of_Tien-sin.jpg
Size of this preview:
800 × 576 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
320 × 230 pixels
|
640 × 461 pixels
|
1,024 × 737 pixels
|
1,280 × 921 pixels
|
2,560 × 1,842 pixels
|
3,400 × 2,447 pixels
.
Summary
Description VIEW OF A CASTLE, Near the City of Tien-sin.jpg |
English:
Drawing by William Alexander, draughtsman of the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793. A fort near Tianjin situated on a point at the confluence of three rivers, the Pei-ho, the Yun-leang, and the When-ho. The city of Tianjin was carefully guarded since it was the chief harbor for shipping, and principal depot for merchandise in China. This fortification was thirty-five feet in height, and built with bricks, except the foundation, which was of stone, and has been partly undermined; the surrounding country being very low and marshy. A guard of soldiers was constantly stationed there, and, in cases of turmoil, the sentinels gave the alarm to the adjacent military posts, in the daytime by hoisting a signal, and at night by the explosion of fireworks; on which the neighboring garrisons would arrive to the spot. On the upper landing there is a building to shelter sentinels on duty; one of them is beating a gong, to announce to the garrison the approach of a viceroy or mandarin of rank ; on this notice, they immediately form in a rank, and stand under arms to salute him. Within the parapet a lantern is suspended, and in the opposite angle the imperial standard is elevated; the color of the tablet, with the inscription on it, likewise shows it to be a royal edifice. In
Johan Nieuhoff's
account of the Dutch Embassy, which was sent to Peking in the year of 1650, there is a print either of this tower, or one similar to it, which stood on the same site. The hillocks of earth under a clump of trees, seen in the distance, are burying-places. Image taken from
The Costume of China, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings
, published in London in 1805.
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1800
date QS:P,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Internet Archive | ||||||||||||||||||||
Author |
creator QS:P170,Q961465
|
Licensing
Public domain Public domain false false |
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer . You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. |
|
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ PDM Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 false false