Abstract
This article deals with the album of Chinese drawings produced for export in the late 18th early 19th cc. Originating from Guangzhou, 84 color pictures represent craftsmen, petty traders and street actors. Sixteen of them concur by subject and composition with the engravings published by G.H. Mason who named Pu Qwa as an artist of the originals. Similar drawings can be found in the album of stasiatiska Museet in Stockholm; other ones, close to ours in style, have been included into the album of Capitan Lisianskii. The Parisian album was compiled and bound in Paris; it was on sale in the Dondey-Dupr bookshop, and in 1828 Heinrich Julius Klaproth inscribed it with his hand certifying the fact that the drawings had been produced by a Chinese painter (what was probably doubted). It is still unclear how the album reached the Imperial Public library (National library of Russia of today) in Saint-Petersburg. However, it had happened before 1852 when the academician Bernhard Dorn published his catalogue in which the album was described under the number 798.
Highlights
Similar drawings can be found in the album of Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm; other ones, close to ours in style, have been included into the album of Capitan Lisianskii
The “Parisian album” was compiled and bound in Paris; it was on sale in the Dondey-Dupré bookshop, and in 1828 Heinrich Julius Klaproth inscribed it with his hand certifying the fact that the drawings had been produced by a Chinese painter
It is still unclear how the album reached the Imperial Public library (National library of Russia of today) in Saint-Petersburg. It had happened before 1852 when the academician Bernhard Dorn published his catalogue in which the album was described under the number 798
Summary
Китайский альбом из Парижа в Российской национальной библиотеке // Письменные памятники Востока. Среди китайских изобразительных материалов конца XVIII — начала XIX в., хранящихся в Отделе рукописей Российской национальной (ранее Императорской Публичной) библиотеки в Санкт-Петербурге (Васильева 2002; 2010; 2012; 2020: 86–94, 282, 307; Яхонтов 1993: 185–206; Alferova, Tarasenko 2015)[1], один альбом этнографических рисунков определенно поступил не из Китая[2]. Генрих Юлиус Клапрот, никогда не бывший в Китае, сделал на альбоме рисунков запись, утверждающую, что эти рисунки выполнены китайцем.
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