The United States Consulate in Keechong, Shanghai, 1849

Details

George Robert West (fl.1844-1857)
The United States Consulate in Keechong, Shanghai, 1849
signed ‘G.R. West’ (lower left)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
10 x 14 ¼in. (25.4 36.2cm.)

Provenance

with Kennedy Galleries, New York (94984).
Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, by whom deaccessioned through Maine Arts Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts, from whom acquired by the late owner.

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Lot Essay

The artist was attaché to Caleb Cushing, the Envoy Extraordinary and the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Empire of China. 'He was a schooled artist who recorded Cushing's expedition to China in more than a hundred drawings.'

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