Shanghai Park: the spring race meeting of April 1849 taken from the top of Mr J. Grant’s house

Details

George Robert West (fl.1844-1857)
Shanghai Park: the spring race meeting of April 1849 taken from the top of Mr J. Grant’s house
signed ‘G.R. West’ (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper
8 ¾ x 14 ½in. (22.3 x 36.8cm.)

Provenance

with Martyn Gregory, London, 1985, cat.41, no.138 (when described as titled on the original mount).

Exhibited

Brighton, The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, The China Trade, 1600-1860, Feb.-April 1986, no.64.

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Lot Essay

'This extremely rare view shows Shanghai Park, the original racecourse, before it was extended after 1850. The course depicted here was considered to be too dusty and to have sharp bends. Most of it however was incorporated into the new course, trees having been planted and grandstands built.' (Martyn Gregory, cat.41, p.75).

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