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ATTRIBUTED TO TINGQUA (1809-1870)
The Waterfront at Canton with the European Factories and the Protestant Church, a fowerboat, junks, sampans and
the American paddlesteamer 'Spark' ofshore
watercolour and bodycolour on paper
22 x 47Ωin. (55.8 x 120.6cm.)
£30,000-50,000 US$38,000-62,000
€34,000-57,000
A fne and unusually large panoramic view from Tingqua's studio of the hongs at Canton, taken from Honam. The fags fying above
the factories are, from left to right, Prussian, American, French, Dutch, British and Danish. The newly completed Protestant church
(1848) and the fre of 1856 which destroyed the church and the Factories area means that we can date the subject to this nine-
year period. To the right of the church, the new company headquarters now referred to as ‘The new English factories’ have been
rebuilt. They were completed in 1846 in a similar style to those along the Bund in Shanghai of this period. These buildings housed
both the premises of the British Consulate and Jardine, Matheson & Co., in front of which the Danish fag fies, due to the Danish
Consul being a member of the Matheson frm. There is a similar view, dated 1855, depicting the waterfront of Canton and European
factories seen from the island of Honam, and also featuring the paddle-steamer Spark, in the collection of the Hong Kong Maritime
Museum.

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