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Shipping at the Bocca Tigris, near Canton
Details
Lieutenant Frederick John White (d.1856)
Shipping at the Bocca Tigris, near Canton
watercolour heightened with white on paper
10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm.)
Shipping at the Bocca Tigris, near Canton
watercolour heightened with white on paper
10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm.)
Literature
Watercolours and Drawings Magazine, Summer 1986, illus. no. 7, p.15.
Exhibited
Brighton Pavilion, 1986. White's view is based on an earlier drawing by Captain Robert Elliot, the latter reproduced in Elliot's Views of the East (1833). The artist was an officer in the Royal Marines and on active service throughout the Opium War.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.