Chinese boats: Duck boat

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Chinese boats. Duck 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(12)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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Image width: 1024 pixels
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Filesize: 552.20kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 15:02:57

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19th Century album birds boats Chinese covered duck boat ducks Fitz_PDP paper pith paper river boats sailing sailing boat sailing vessels sampans silk watercolour

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