VIEW OF WHAMPOA ANCHORAGE QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1840

Chinese School, oil on canvas, depicting an anchored American three-masted ship, and various junks and sampans ferrying people and cargo, foreign warehouses seen in the background, framed

Sotheby's New York, 10th April 1986, lot 43.

Oil on canvas. The work does not appear to be lined. There is a stable web of craquelure visible over the majority of the picture surface. Some flattening of the surface and minor abrasion are evident. There is retouching visible to the naked eye along the right edge. Under UV light, some minor retouching along the extreme edges and at the upper left corner. A few additional scattered dots and dashes of retouching, mainly to address craquelure, scattered throughout the work. There is retouching along the right edge and below the belt at far right.
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