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The painting in the Copenhagen house.
哥本哈根屋内佈置

Individual scenes found on this scroll are similar to those on Footnotes:
eighteenth century porcelains and on panoramic wallpapers.
Selecting a multitude of scenes created a composite landscape i. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-alexander-hume-
of a bucolic but fictional China for Western consumption. Scenic scroll-painting-of-foreign-factories-in-canton-u/CgGaQ-HbxAE-
wall coverings, generally painted on gouache on paper, were most 8Q?hl=en [accessed February 20, 2022] Hong Kong Maritime
commonly illustrated in multiple horizontal registers to convey a Museum, HKMM2015.0020.0001
scene of distance, with the most distant landscape painted as the ii. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-fine-and-early-chinese-
top section and inevitably showing a range of mountain peaks, as scroll-painting-of-the-h-648-c-f5811ba769 [accessed February 20,
here. 2022] 91.5 cm x 276.5 cm.
iii. https://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/knowGZ/content.
Similar scenes are found in the top registers of wallpapers at do?contextId=12715&frontParentCatalogId=175 [accessed Feb 21,
Harewood House, near Leeds, hung by Thomas Chippendale in 2022.
1769; in the Chinese Room at Westport House, County Mayo, iv. Emile de Bruijn, Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland, National
probably hung in the 1770s or 80s(iv); and in the room of papers Trust, London, 2018, pp. 92, 101 and 105.
of about 1800-1803 from Strathallan Castle, Perthshire, now in the v. William R. Sargent, “The Strathallan Castle Wallpaper at the
Peabody Essex Museum(v). Peabody Essex Museum,” Orientations, Nov/Dec 2014, 74-81

See another silk painting of Canton in the Goteborgs Stadsmuseum
(CM13,239) measuring 32.6 x 308.2in, published in Gotesborgs
Stadsmuseum, Ostindiska Commpagniet, 2000, p. 18-19.

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