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BAYLIS, 1ST OFFICER (FL.1833)
The "Samarang" with rigging
inscribed ‘The “Samarang” drawn for / Robert Morrison, by Mr Baylis / the 1st oficer – March 1833 – China’, and further extensively
inscribed with a key to the masts and rigging
watercolour on eight joined sheets of paper laid down on linen
16 x 25ºin. (40.6 x 64.1cm.)
£3,000-5,000 US$3,800-6,200
€3,400-5,600
The Samarang was a 28 gun teak sixth-rate sloop launched by the East India Company in Cochin in 1822. She saw action in the
First Opium War and was most famously employed on Belcher's surveying voyage of the coasts of the East Indies and southern
China between 1843 and 1846. She was on the South American station in 1833, so the drawing was presumably sent to Morrison in
China by Baylis (as evidenced in its folded format). The missionary and Chinese scholar Robert Morrison (1782-1834) had returned
from England to Canton and Macao in 1826, and remained in China until his death in Canton on 1 August 1834.

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