马戛尔尼使团绘制的中国图像在英美的收藏现状述考

An Overview of the Macartney Mission’s Images of China in British and American Museums

马戛尔尼使团访华是中英两国在历史上的第一次正式官方接触,使团成员们在华期间绘制了大量的中国图像,这些作品是成员观察中国时的直接视觉描绘,也从英国的视角记录了18世纪末中国的社会风俗和中英之间的重要政治交往事件,具有较高的文献价值。本文整理并爬梳了使团绘制的中国图像在英美的主要收藏现状以及这些图像对欧洲"中国形象"形成所产生的后续影响。

The Macartney Mission’s visit to China is the first official Sino-Britain contact in history,during which the members of the diplomatic mission did many drawings to describe by intuition what he saw and experienced,illustrate the social customs of the 18;century China and document such important inter-governmental political exchanges from a British viewpoint this way.This thesis overviews the historical images now housed in Britain and America museums and their impacts upon‘Chinese image’coming into being in Europe.