Album: Chinese boats, cover

An image of Chinese boats. Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper. Production Place: Guangzhou, historically known as Canton. Pith paper and silk, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th Century. Chinese.

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Chinese boats. Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper. Production Place: Guangzhou, historically known as Canton. Pith paper and silk, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th Century. Chinese.

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Accession Number: 4173
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: 233.63kB
Exposure time: 1/18
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 14:45:08

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