Chinese School, circa 1840

An Album of fifteen studies of Chinese Street Trades and three studies of Fish

細節
Chinese School, circa 1840
An Album of fifteen studies of Chinese Street Trades and three studies of Fish
bodycolour
18.3/8 x 13in. (46.6 x 33cm.)
the album 23½ x 19in. (59.7 x 48.2cm.) overall
two illustrated

拍品專文

'Some of the most commom 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'' (C.L. Crossman, op. cit., pp. 184-5).