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NORTHERN CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1860
A Chinese Street with European soldiers and sailors shopping, a column of soldiers marching along a creek and an
anchorage beyond
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on brown paper
26 x 54in. (66.1 x 137.2cm.)
£8,000-12,000 US$9,900-15,000
€9,100-14,000
A painting that dates to the Second Opium War (1856-1860), portraying Anglo-French forces when they took the northern cities of
Tianjin and Peking.
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