Lot Essay
Crossman calls Youqua "...unquestionably the finest painter of this period on a grand scale" (The Decorative Arts of The China Trade, p. 138).
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Details
YOUQUA (FL. 1840-70)
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Oil on canvas
A number of foreign ships at anchor in the bay; on the back a red printed label reading Youqua Painter/Old Street No. 34
15½ x 22 in. (39.4 x 55.8 cm.)
WHAMPOA ANCHORAGE
Oil on canvas
A number of foreign ships at anchor in the bay; on the back a red printed label reading Youqua Painter/Old Street No. 34
15½ x 22 in. (39.4 x 55.8 cm.)
Literature
Illustrated in To the Farthest Gulf: The Story of the American China Trade, by Dorothy Schurman Hawes, daughter of Jacob Gould Shurman, appointed U.S. Ambassador to China 1921-25 after serving as President of Cornell 1892-1920. The book's title is taken from the motto of Salem, Mass.: Divitis Indiae usque ad ultimum sinum.
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