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Lot Essay
These orderly scenes depicting men working in the paddy fields, cultivating the rice, are very similar to a set of twenty-three watercolours of circa 1790 which formerly belonged to Lord Macartney, during his Embassy in China in 1792-4 (D. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, 1997, pp. 36-37, no. 28).