A Chinese man in a sedan chair that is carried by three servants. A fourth servant holds a paper lantern above the lead porter. Two other men lead the entourage
Alternative Title:
Munificent present of twenty-one million of dollars to Queen Vic. from the Brother to the moon
Description:
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle., Publication information from cover and advertisement to the series., and Plate numbered '6' in upper left corner from: The brother to the moon's visit to the court of Queen Vic.
Publisher:
Messrs. Fores and Printed by W. Kohler
Subject (Geographic):
China.
Subject (Topic):
Paper lanterns, Parades & processions, and Sedan chairs
BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle., Publication information from cover and advertisement to the series., Plate numbered '18' in upper left corner from: The brother to the moon's visit to the court of Queen Vic., On same sheet, verso: Principal attendants on the celestial bodies., and Temporary local subject terms: Chinese people -- Chinese musical instruments -- Chinese fans -- Chinese umbrellas -- Chinese servants.
Publisher:
Messrs. Fores and Printed by W. Kohler
Subject (Geographic):
China.
Subject (Topic):
Scientific equipment, Sedan chairs, and Telescopes
Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
BEIN WIPA +1160: Without 1st ed. statement. Dust jacket. From the Peter E. Palmquist Women in Photography International Archive. and BEIN Zab Ar645 980H: With 1st ed. statement. Dust jacket. Presentation inscription to Irene [Sharaff] and "Mee Mei" [Mai-mai Sze] from Eve [Arnold]. From the Irene Sharaff Papers.
