Lieutenant Frederick J. White, R.N. (active c. 1840-45)

Golden Island in the Yangtze

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Lieutenant Frederick J. White, R.N. (active c. 1840-45)
Golden Island in the Yangtze

with inscription 'An Extant from the Journal of Capt. Charles Richards RN.CB. July 19th 1842./"I was sent by the Admiral (Sir W. Parker) to take possession of Golden Island with a party of Marines and Seamen./hoisted the Union Jack on the top of the Pagoda, fired a volley and gave three cheers"' on a label attached to the mount
watercolour, unframed
6¼ x 96in. (15.8 x 23.3cm.)
Part of the Wall of Nanking
with inscription 'Lieut J. White/delt./Part of the Wall of Nankin Augst 30th 1842' on a label attached to the mount
watercolour, unframed
6.7/8 x 9¼in. (17.4 x 23.6cm.)
two (2)

拍品專文

For a similar view of Golden Island by White (The Kin-Shan or Golden Island on the Yangtse - Tse - Kiang river) see Martyn Gregory Gallery, Catalogue 30 (1982), no. 167, and for the artist, who served in China from 1840 to 1845, see Martyn Gregory, Catalogue 18. A version of the present view by White was engraved by Thomas Allom for the frontispiece to the Rev. G.N. Wright's China, its Scenes (etc.), I, 1843. The subjects are taken from the British naval campaign which preceded the Nanking treaty signed in August 1842.