A RARE CHINESE ALBUM OF TWENTY FOUR OPIUM WAR PAINTINGS
Watercolour on paper, painted with scenes from the Opium wars including hostilities on land at at sea and scenes with captured red-headed British soldiers being offered up to the Chinese High Commissioner, Lin Zexu, each painting approx. 30cm by 58.5cm, framed by plain border and blue silk covers
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£3,000 - £5,000
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Hammer price:
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£3,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance
Mary Ann Frederica Harrison ( 1838-1910), the wife of Thomas ( 1835-1892), a tea merchant in Canton, where she lived from 1867 until the early 1890's, and then by family descent. A companion album of thirty four watercolours from the same provenance was sold by Dreweatts 1759, 17th May, 2016, lot 7
Some light., mainly marginal staining to the paintings and mounts. Silk covered wrappers frayed at the edges
