IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 185526 accession number: 4163.2 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 23 September 2011 updated: Thursday 23 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Whampoa is situated 10-16 miles from Canton and was the closest the Western ships could get to port before the water became too shallow. All the foreign ships anchored at Whampoa to load or unload their cargos. Subsequently, the crew and cargo relied on sampans and other small boats to transport in and out of Canton. This image shows panoramic view of the anchorage from Danes Island; it includes three famous pagodas used as navigation points. Previously described as "Whampoa". title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185526 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid lown with with strips of blue silk-covered paper watercolour CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Youqua DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 250 dimension: Width units: mm value: 337 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/large_4163_282_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 837 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_4163_282_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4163_282_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_4163_282_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 204 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/228/large_4163_2__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 771 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/228/mid_4163_2__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 377 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4163(2)_201106_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/228/preview_4163_2__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/228/4163_2__201106_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4008 pixels width: 5320 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/629/large_4163_2__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/629/mid_4163_2__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4163(2)_201106_amt49_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/629/preview_4163_2__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 204 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/629/4163_2__201106_amt49_dc1.ptif height: 3957 pixels width: 4838 pixels