Chinese boats: River boat with sails down

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Chinese boats. River boat with sails down. 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(3)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 122.86kB
Exposure time: 1/17
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 14:59:22

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19th Century album boats Chinese covered Fitz_PDP paper pith paper river boats sailing sailing boat sailing vessels sails silk watercolour

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