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China -- Description and travel -- Views -- To 1900.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Wason Collection of Chinese export watercolors.

 Collection
Identifier: 4500
Abstract

A collection of early Chinese export watercolors including "Street Trades," on paper with J. Whatman watermark, similar in format and subject to those published in an 1800 British work by George Mason, also including children's toys, boats, mandarins, butterflies, and Chinese scenes probably ca. 1790.

Dates: 1790 - 1900; Undated

Watercolors for Lord Macartney's embassy

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4467

William Alexander engravings

 Collection
Identifier: 4510
Abstract

Four engravings of scenes of China published in 1796: "View of the Suburbs of a Chinese City," "View of one of the Western Gates of the City of Pekin," "View of the Lake Pao-Ying where it is separated from the Grand Canal by an embankment of Earth," and "View of Pai-Loo, improperly called a Triumphal Arch, and of a Chinese fortress."

Dates: 1796