Chinese Trades – forty-nine drawings

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Chinese School, circa 1810
Chinese Trades – forty-nine drawings
pencil and bodycolour on paper watermarked ‘J WHATMAN / 1805’
each 19 ¼ x 15in. (48.8 x 38.1cm.)
twenty-two framed, twenty-seven unframed
(49)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 15 Oct. 1986, lot 52 (which comprised fifty drawings).

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Please note that twenty-two are framed and twenty-seven are unframed.

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Lot Essay

'Some of the most common albums painted for the western market were those made up of between a dozen to one hundred watercolours of the street trades of Canton ... Popular from the late 18th and on through the 19th Century, they had the same effect on the buying public as the extraordinarily successful Street Cries of London' (Crossman, pp.184-5).

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