Youqua (active 1840-1870)

An Album including eight sheets of studies of Butterflies and Insects

細節

Youqua (active 1840-1870)
An Album including eight sheets of studies of Butterflies and Insects
the album stamped 'Youqua Painter/Old Street No. 34' on the first sheet
watercolour on pith paper
9¾ x 12¾in. (24.8 x 32.4cm.) overall

拍品專文

The artist was based in Canton and Hong Kong. For a brief review of his work and the output of his contemporaries and their studios specialising in silk covered pith paper watercolour albums produced for export, see C.L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, pp. 198-202.