LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

11.38 in. (28.90 cm.) (height) by 21.10 in. (53.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Martyn Gregory, The China Trade Observed, 1985 cat.41, no.120. London, Martyn Gregory, Trade Routes to the East, 1998, cat.72, no.122 (illustrated on the catalogue cover).

Literature:

P. Conner, The China Trade 1600-1860, Edinburgh, 1986, pp.42-44, nos.42 and 43, illustrated in black and white. T. Mo, An Insular Possession, 1986, the verandah illustrated in colour on the cover. C. L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, pp.94-95, colour plates 28 and 29. J.M. Downes, The Golden Ghetto, The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844, Lehigh University Press, 1997, the verandah illustrated facing p.218. K.S. Alexander, 'Rebecca Kinsman and the Architecture of Macao, 1843-1847' World History Connected, vol 11, No.1, Forum: Architecture and World History (sourced online at http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/11.1/forum_alexander.html), the verandah illustrated in colour fig. 6. P.C.Perdue, 'Visualizing Macau' in Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System - II, Macau & Whampoa Anchorage (from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures, 2009 (sourced online at https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_02/cw_essay02.html), a detail of the verandah illustrated. D. A. Morrison, True Yankees, The South Seas & The Discovery of American Identity, Baltimore, 2014, illustrated in black and white pp.161 and 163.

Provenance:

with Martyn Gregory, 1985.