Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Canton Artist
Title:
Shanghai
Date:
c.1860
Medium:
gouache on pith paper
Size:
13.5 x 25.5 cm
Description:
An attractive Chinese export painting of the Bund in Shanghai in the mid nineteenth century. This picture would probably have been painted by a Chinese artist in a studio in Canton. Views of cities such as Hong Kong, Canton, Macao and Shanghai were popular as souvenirs among visitors to China before photography was introduced. By the 1860s photographic studios were being established in Hong Kong and Shanghai and photographs would become another desirable souvenir.
References:
Item Code:
64.P5365
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