Period:Unknown Production date:1789
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:dock/quay
Dimensions:Height: 125 millimetres Width: 186 millimetres
Description:
View of the ‘hongs’ in Guangzhou with flags of several nations flying from posts along the quayside; the Union flag is prominent; small boats in the river manned by Chinese; illustration to Dr John Trusler’s ‘The Habitable World Described’. 1789 Etching
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![图片[1]-print BM-1877-1013.230-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_ppa433043.jpg)
Comments:From the 1680s foreigners were allowed to trade from the ‘hongs’ or ‘factories’ outside Canton (Guangzhou). They remained the only place where foreigners were allowed to live and trade in China until the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 opened Chinese ports to foreigners; the factories burned down during the Second Opium War in 1856.For another illustration from the same publication, see 1868,1114.457
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:dock/quay
Dimensions:Height: 125 millimetres Width: 186 millimetres
Description:
View of the ‘hongs’ in Guangzhou with flags of several nations flying from posts along the quayside; the Union flag is prominent; small boats in the river manned by Chinese; illustration to Dr John Trusler’s ‘The Habitable World Described’. 1789 Etching
IMG
Comments:From the 1680s foreigners were allowed to trade from the ‘hongs’ or ‘factories’ outside Canton (Guangzhou). They remained the only place where foreigners were allowed to live and trade in China until the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 opened Chinese ports to foreigners; the factories burned down during the Second Opium War in 1856.For another illustration from the same publication, see 1868,1114.457
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