Factories at Canton, by Youqua

An image of Album: Views of South China. Factories at Canton. Album containing 4 watercolours on pith paper (folios 1-4) illustrating the journey down the River Pearl made by Western merchant ships. Folios 5-12 are blank. Youqua (Chinese, ac.1840-1870). Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid lown with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th century. Notes: Canton was the port used by Western merchants. This view shows the quarters, called factories or hongs, which foreign merchants were allowed to live in during the four-month trading season. Export album made for the Western market.

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Album: Views of South China. Factories at Canton. Album containing 4 watercolours on pith paper (folios 1-4) illustrating the journey down the River Pearl made by Western merchant ships. Folios 5-12 are blank. Youqua (Chinese, ac.1840-1870). Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid lown with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th century. Notes: Canton was the port used by Western merchants. This view shows the quarters, called factories or hongs, which foreign merchants were allowed to live in during the four-month trading season. Export album made for the Western market.

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Captured: 2011:06:15 15:11:16

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