William Alexander.View on the banks of the River Peiho.Men and boys sitting on the banks of the Hai River; with fisherman in the foreground; temple on the left; and women and children watching outside a village in the background. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on verso: 鈥楩igures on the Banks of the River as viewing the Ambassador's Barges &c'. Pasted on mount with washlines.Described as 鈥楥ompanion to [Maps 8. Tab. C. 8.1.]. This drawing exhibits a group of figures collected together near a temple on the bank of a river.'; 1 drawing: watercolour ; sheet 32.6 x 47.7 cm; on support 39.3 x 56 cm.1793.From: William Alexander; [A collection of eighty views; maps; portraits and drawings illustrative of the Embassy sent to China under George; Earl of Macartney; in 1793; drawn chiefly by William Alexander; some by Sir John Barrow; Bart. some by Sir Henry Woodbine Parish; and one by William Gomm. Many of them are engraved in Sir George Staunton's Narrative of the Embassy; published in 1797.].Maps 8. Tab. C. 8.2London; British Library.