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Lot Essay
A companion to the previous lot, there is a larger version of this view by William Daniell (Christie's (Hackwood Park), 21 April 1998, lot 757), fig.1, probably worked up from the same Thomas Daniell sketch (Shellim) which served as a model for the present lot.
The view shows Whampoa (Huangbu) reach, the deep-water anchorage and loading point for the western fleets. Goods were unloaded here before being shipped by barge ten miles up the Pearl river to Canton (Guangzhou).
The Daniells extolled the 'sweet romantic scenery' of Whampoa in their Picturesque Voyage to India by way of China (1810) which included two coloured aquatints of the district. The American W.C. Hunter also described the scene: 'no finer sight of the kind could be seen in any part of the world than the Company's fleet collected at Whampoa, with their inward cargoes discharged, and every ship in beautiful order, waiting for teas...everything indicated system, discipline and force.'
The view shows Whampoa (Huangbu) reach, the deep-water anchorage and loading point for the western fleets. Goods were unloaded here before being shipped by barge ten miles up the Pearl river to Canton (Guangzhou).
The Daniells extolled the 'sweet romantic scenery' of Whampoa in their Picturesque Voyage to India by way of China (1810) which included two coloured aquatints of the district. The American W.C. Hunter also described the scene: 'no finer sight of the kind could be seen in any part of the world than the Company's fleet collected at Whampoa, with their inward cargoes discharged, and every ship in beautiful order, waiting for teas...everything indicated system, discipline and force.'