Whampoa Anchorage

Details

Chinese School, Mid-19th Century
Whampoa Anchorage
appears to retain its original frame
oil on canvas
16 x 30 3/8 in.

Provenance

Marine Arts Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts

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Lot Essay

This panoramic view shows the Western ships at anchor in Whampoa Reach from the foreground vantage point of Dane's Island, the site of a Protestant cemetery for those Western travelers who perished in the semi-tropical environs of the Pearl River and Canton. On Whampoa Island, bankshalls or warehouses were developed for the trading nations.

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