2-692-978 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A View near the City of Lin-Tsin on the Banks of the Grand Canal.', 1796. Artist William Alexander accompanied Lord Macartney on the Macartney Mission, the first British diplomatic mission to China, in 1793. Shown here is a the 'Pagoda of Linsing of 9 stories', which stood where the Eu-Ho River intersects with the Grand Canal, sketched from a junk.