• Title
  Item 31: Original drawings, ca. 1900-1920 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
• Call number
  PX*D 159
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1900-1920
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457313
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : nos. 2a, 3-4
  
• Physical Description
  14 drawings - watercolour, pencil, ink - 33.4 x 43 cm and smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Morrison with two Chinese children (pencil). Taken from a photograph
  2a. Chinese woman slashing her chest (watercolour). Inscribed: 'Dr Assmy[?] German Govt. Hospital, Chung king'
  2b. Chinese woman being tended by doctor (watercolour)
  3. [A raid on a temple] (watercolour).
  On 16 June 1900 Morrison led a raid on a temple during which over 100 Chinese Christians were rescued from hands of the Boxers. Morrison later commissioned the folk painter Chou Pei-chum to paint this action. It is inscribed in Chinese: 'This is the picture that Englishman Dr. Morrison led the force to attack the Boxers in Shuaifu Yuan and killed fifty or sixty of them. Twenty-fourth of May, the twenty-sixth year of Emperor Kuang Hsu.' (Source: Old China Through G.E. Morrison's Eyes: Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi, 2005)
  4. [Portrait of Morrison] / F. Whiting, Pekin [19]00 (pencil).
  At this time Frederic Whiting was Special Artist-Correspondent for the Daily Graphic.
  5. [Portrait of Morrison reading] (watercolour)
  6. [Bearded man / W.D.S.] (pencil)
  7. [Squatting figure under hat / W.D.S.] (pencil)
  8. [Young man] / W.D.S. (pencil)
  9. [Young boy] / W.D.S. (pencil)
  10. Port Victoria [possibly Lyttleton, New Zealand, formerly called Port of Victoria] / Ed Norman (ink)
  11. [Cartoon face - smiling Chinese] (ink)
  12. [Cartoon face - smiling Chinese and cartoon figure, holding bag labelled 'Subscribe Capital' ] (ink)
  13. [Cartoon figure holding bag labelled 'Subscribe Capital'] (ink)
• Language
  Chinese
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823404
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
  Whiting, Frederic, 1874-1962
  
• Place
  Hong Kong
  China--History--Boxer Rebellion--1899-1901.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1159367

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