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CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1810
Chinese Trades – forty-nine drawings
pencil and bodycolour on paper watermarked ‘J WHATMAN / 1805’
each 19º x 15in. (48.8 x 38.1cm.)
seven framed, forty-two unframed (49)
£20,000-30,000 US$25,000-37,000
€23,000-34,000
PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 15 Oct. 1986, lot 52 (which comprised ffty drawings).
'Some of the most common albums painted for the western market were those made up of between a dozen to one hundred
watercolours of the street trades of Canton ... Popular from the late 18th and on through the 19th Century, they had the same efect
on the buying public as the extraordinarily successful Street Cries of London' (Crossman, pp.184-5).
In addition to the hammer price, a Buyer’s Premium (plus VAT) is payable. Other taxes and/or an Artist Resale Royalty 41
fee are also payable if the lot has a tax or λ symbol. Check Section D of the Conditions of Sale at the back of this catalogue.
