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Representation of the Chinese Court of Justice held at the British Factory of Canton on the 8th March 1807, in the presence, & at the special requisition of the British Authorities for an enquiry into a charge of Homicide, laid against the Seamen of the East India Company's ship Neptune, which terminated in the establishment of their innocence of the crime of murder, & their free discharge, upon a verdict of accidental homicide, from an original Picture Painted on the Spot by a native artist and now in the possession of Sir George Staunton.
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M. Gauci, mid 19th century
Representation of the Chinese Court of Justice held at the British Factory of Canton on the 8th March 1807, in the presence, & at the special requisition of the British Authorities for an enquiry into a charge of Homicide, laid against the Seamen of the East India Company's ship Neptune, which terminated in the establishment of their innocence of the crime of murder, & their free discharge, upon a verdict of accidental homicide, from an original Picture Painted on the Spot by a native artist and now in the possession of Sir George Staunton.
handcoloured lithograph [watermarked 'J. Whatman'], printed by Graf & Sorel
16½ x 20½in. (42 x 52.2cm.)
Representation of the Chinese Court of Justice held at the British Factory of Canton on the 8th March 1807, in the presence, & at the special requisition of the British Authorities for an enquiry into a charge of Homicide, laid against the Seamen of the East India Company's ship Neptune, which terminated in the establishment of their innocence of the crime of murder, & their free discharge, upon a verdict of accidental homicide, from an original Picture Painted on the Spot by a native artist and now in the possession of Sir George Staunton.
handcoloured lithograph [watermarked 'J. Whatman'], printed by Graf & Sorel
16½ x 20½in. (42 x 52.2cm.)
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