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CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1840 GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852)
The Waterfront at Honam The Waterfront at Canton with the Western Factories
pen and ink and black wash heightened with scratching out on paper laid pencil, pen and ink on paper
down on canvas 3Ω x 7¬in. (8.8 x 19.3cm.)
15º x 23in. (38.7 x 58.4cm.)
£4,000-6,000 US$5,000-7,400
£5,000-7,000 US$6,200-8,700 €4,600-6,800
€5,700-7,900
PROVENANCE:
PROVENANCE: with Dr Thomas Boswall Watson.
with Martyn Gregory, London, July 1990, no.108. with Martyn Gregory, London, 1986, cat.43, no.60.

The view depicts the waterfront at Honam across the river from the Hongs at Chinnery arrived on the China coast from Calcutta on 29 September 1825.
Canton, extending from a Chinese temple and residences on the left to the He would spend the rest of his life here, settling permanently in Macao after
'Macau Passage' and the Red Fort on the right. regular excursions to Canton in his frst years on the coast: he resided in
Canton in the late summer and autumn of 1826-1829 and 1832. This very
lively sketch shows the Hongs at Canton, ranging from Chung Qua's Hong on
the left, decorated with its pagoda roof, to the pedimented frontages of the
English and Dutch Hongs on the right. The same view is glimpsed beyond
the Red Fort in Chinnery's watercolour 'The Red Fort, Canton, with a distant
view of the western Factories' in the Hong Kong Museum of Art (for which
see P. Conner, George Chinnery 1774-1852: Artist of India and the China Coast,
Woodbridge, 1993, p.166, pl.99).