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VIEW OF THE AMERICAN PROVENANCE the ‘foreign anchorage’ on the Bund, Suzhou
SETTLEMENT, SHANGHAI Creek and Wills’ Bridge; American houses; the
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1855 Leggatt Brothers, London, 1962 land rst occupied by the American Episcopal
United Kingdom Private Collection, acquired Church Mission; the American ground (today’s
Chinese School, oil on canvas, nely painted November 1962. Hongkou district) with the First Protestant
depicting a rare panorama of the ‘American Episcopal Church (1848-1868); and the American
Ground’ across the Huangpu River with a variety Paintings depicting the panorama of the Consulate ying the ag. The river is occupied
of rivercraft including tanka boats ying American American Ground at Shanghai are rare. The with a variety of sea vessels, such as tanka boats
and British ags ferrying American and British present impressive canvas is likely to have
merchants in amongst the larger junks, sampans been commissioned by an American merchant ying American and British ags while ferrying
and foreign vessels, framed from a Chinese artist in Shanghai in the mid- to American and British merchants in amongst the
Height 26¼ in., 66.7 cm; Width 56½ in., 143.5 cm late-1850s. The painting illustrates, from left to larger junks, sampans and foreign boats.
right: the British Consulate on the north end of
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