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sets) and ship portraits. 58 The representation of
Chinese harbours and anchorages in the Chinese
Pearl River delta – essential locations for
transcontinental trade – that, in addition to
being sites for the circulation of goods, were also
breeding grounds for the exchange of knowledge
and ideas, was a popular theme for Chinese
export paintings the world over. Between 1752
and 1842, all the foreign trade to and from
China, except for that of Russian and Japan,
was centred in Canton. 59 From the middle of the
nineteenth century, after the first Opium War
(1839-1842), harbours such as Hong Kong,
Amoy (Xiamen), and Ningbo also became
popular trading ports. (Figure 4.29.) Before the
opening of these so-called Chinese treaty ports
(Treaty of Nanjing, 1842) a group of four Fig. 4.29. View of watercolour on pith Fig. 4.30. The
harbour views were especially popular among Amoy (from album paper, c. 1850, 25.3 x roadstead of Macao,
Western buyers. This foursome consisted of with 12 images of 34.7 cm, Maritime anonymous, oil on
images of Macao, Bocca Tigris, Whampoa and Chinese harbour Museum Rotterdam, canvas, c. 1845,
Canton. Figures 4.30 to 4.33. show depictions of cities), anonymous, inv.no. P1711-12. 45 x 79 cm, National
Maritime Museum
Amsterdam,
inv.no. A.1947(02).

Fig. 4.31. The mouth of
the Tiger river(?) near
Canton; Bocca Tigris,
inscription verso: De
monding van den Tiger;
Een schip de Bocca
Tigri uitzeilende (from
set of 4), anonymous,
oil on copper, c. 1790,
11 x 15 cm, National
Maritime Museum
Amsterdam,
inv.no. A.3229(04).

Fig. 4.32. The roadstead
of Whampoa,
inscription verso:
De Reede van Macao
vanaf de Zuidelijke
Oever der rivier (not
correct), anonymous,
--- oil on paper, glued on
58 Maritime Museum Rotterdam: inv.nos. P1235, P1339, P1729, P1745A, P1913 to P1916, P1985, P2331 and P2332, P3807, canvas, c. 1845, 46 x 60
P3815, P1711, and P1868; National Maritime Museum Amsterdam: inv.nos. A.1425, A.1642(01) and (02), A.1710(02)1 to cm, Maritime Museum
(02)3, A.1854, A.1947(01) and (02), A.2068(06)a to (06)b, A.3229(01) to (004), S.0173(03), S.1388, S.1730(02), (03)b and Rotterdam, inv.no. P1914.
(03)d, and S.4217; Dutch Navy Museum Den Helder: inv.nos. A/001/046 and A/001/086; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam:
inv.nos. NG-1052; SK-C-1722 to 1724; Tropenmuseum Amsterdam: inv.nos. 0-394, A7222, A-7224, A-7225, A-7227, Fig. 4.33. View of the
1754-2 to 1754-11, and 2034-1 to 2034-12; Museum Volkenkunde: inv.nos. 360-1142, B3-1 to B3-4 and B125-1, 360-1115, quay of Canton,
360-1116 and 6166-6 to 6166-8; Westfriesmuseum Hoorn: inv.no. 12159; Groninger Museum: inv.nos. 1990.0470 and anonymous, oil on
1990.0471, and 1978.0366. Maritiem Digitaal (www.maritiemdigitaal.nl) is the largest online database of maritime canvas, c. 1850, 44 x 77
objects and literature in the Benelux, including pictures of harbour views and ship portraits present in Dutch cm, National Maritime
maritime museums. Museum Amsterdam,
59 Van Dyke 2004, 45. inv.no. A.1425.