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CIRCA 1793
Details
AN ALBUM OF SEVENTY WATERCOLOURS
CIRCA 1793
The album contains seventy watercolours on paper depicting Chinese flowers, fruits, insects and fish with English captions.
According to the album notes, thirty drawings signed with 'D' are painted by a Western painter named Dellow in Macau between 1793-1794, the rest by Chinese Canton anonymous painters at the same period.
The album measures: 14 ¾ x 9 5/8 in. (37.4 x 24.4 cm)
CIRCA 1793
The album contains seventy watercolours on paper depicting Chinese flowers, fruits, insects and fish with English captions.
According to the album notes, thirty drawings signed with 'D' are painted by a Western painter named Dellow in Macau between 1793-1794, the rest by Chinese Canton anonymous painters at the same period.
The album measures: 14 ¾ x 9 5/8 in. (37.4 x 24.4 cm)
Provenance
Private English collection, acquired in the 1960s by the vendor's mother, and then by descent.