Chinese boats, flower boat

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Chinese boats. Flower boat (?). Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper. Production Place: Guangzhou, historically known as Canton. Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th Century. Chinese.

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Accession Number: 4173(2)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 786 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 114.49kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 14:58:50

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19th Century album boats Chinese Fitz_PDP floral flower boat flowers paper pith paper river boats sailing sailing boat sailing vessels sampans silk watercolour

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