ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL

19TH CENTURY

Details

ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL
19th Century
An album of twenty-four paintings
watercolor on paper, tooled leather album binding

A variety of scenes and styles including two scenes of Jesuit compounds painted en grisaille; scenes of famous sites in Beijing; four processions; an outdoor entertainment with acrobats performing; an indoor scene of a play or opera; an execution; a battle; monks in a shrine; a scene of filial piety; a farming scene; a school examination; and various street scenes, including several dealing with medicine and acupuncture. All with inscriptions in Chinese and Russian on the reverse
5 3/8 x 8 5/8in. (8.6 x 21.9cm.)

Further details

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Lot Essay

The brown leather binding is Russian made, in the style of the 1860's, and has a gilded title in cyrillic, "Album of Chinese Paintings". The Chinese inscriptions are written in black ink, the Russian inscriptions are in pencil