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No.65.
No.66.
No.67.
No.68.
No.69.
"Old Factories", Canton: Very early view, in miniature: before reclaiming and bunding of foreshore, or planting of trees, etc. 1820. Native artist. A perfect little miniature view. Framed: oil
12" x 8".
Empress Dorager at the Summer Palace, Peking:
Cira
With her Ladies, Eunuchs, attendants, etc., in a summer-house of the palace gardens. A remarkable work in oils. Artist unknwon. No date: probably circa 1880-1899.
Framed: oil. 4 feet 3 inches x 3 feet 2 inches. (Companion picture to No.73)
Chinese Dragon-boat': A Dragon-boat proceeding to or coming from a Dragon-boat race. On the Canton River (Some say the view is on the Min River (Foochow district). Native artist.
Framed: oil.
24" x 18".
Chinese Sampan girl: portrait of A-mui, Chinnery's boat girl whom he often sketched. (Slightly damaged but easily repaired). Oil painting by George Chinnery, R.H.A.
Framed: oil.
12" x 10".
-1852).
Chinese Boat girls: A slight sketch by G. Chinnery water-colour tinted in a small carved frame.
No.70.
No.71 &
72.
No.73.
No.74.
No. 75.
No.76.
Framed: ater-colour.
Chinese River scene:
61" x 51"
River view showing in the foreground one of the wall known Canton" Duck-boats" with numerous ducks feeding in the foreshore. Native artist.
24" x 18".
Sea Fight between Government Gunboats and Pirates:
Probably by
A very fine pair of oil paintings) showing Government gunboats and military junks fighting pirates in the Canton Delta. foreign-trained Chinese artist or by a European artist. Framed (pair) oils: (Each) 3 feet 2 inches x 2 feet 4 inches.
Emperor holding Audience in the Palace, Peking:
(Companion picture to No.66).
A remarkable painting of the Emperor Kuang-hsu (1875-1908) holding audience and receiving high officials -red-button men, etc.).
Artist unknown. Framed: oil.
4 feet 3 inches x 3 feet 2 inches.
Chinese river scene showing the bursting of a dam or dyke: The scene is said to be in the San-vui district of the Canton delta (but no proof of this is obtainable here at the moment). Date uncertain: probably about the middle or later in the 19th century. Possibly the best painting in the collection: undoubtedly painted by a highly skilled artist. Framed: oil
44" x 30".
Hongkong: Charming and rare hand-coloured aquatint engraving on a miniature scale of the Island and harbour of Hongkong. Circa 1843? Drawn by C. Graham and engraved by A.H. Payne. Date uncertain but Graham is known to have been in China about 1841 or thereabouts. Published by "The London Printing and Publishing Co." (No date). Framed aquatint: 9" x 72"
Canton Factories:
"New Factories": (i.e. those built after fire. Circa 1847-1850). The Church is shown and this was built about 1847: there is no church in the views of the 'old' Factories. The foreshore is deeper proving reclamation and bunding of foreshore: foreshore is also planted with trees, etc. A good painting of the period showing the Factories as they really were. Native artist.
Framed oil:
3'2" x 22".
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