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Drawings (Watercolors) - Lot 433

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600 - 800 EUR
Drawings (Watercolors) - Lot 433
Drawings (Watercolors) [WATERCOLOR ALBUM - CHINA] Small mid-nineteenth-century album (1860) containing 20 compositions (mostly enhanced watercolor drawings) of characters from Singapore or Hong Kong. In-8 oblong, 17 illustrated leaves, sometimes double-sided, the rest unused. Cloth vignette pasted on first endpaper "Chieunshing from Canton - Queen road west, n°190". Drawing of an opium pipe with captions on the flyleaf; figures and views of sites or buildings (3 leaves with a tear). ½ green long-grain chagrin with burgundy corners, rubbing. Contents (titles of drawings identified): Chinese shoe merchant (singapore) - Chinese type (singapore) - Malabar - Indian jugglers - Chinese temple (caption in Chinese) - Malay village built on stilts around Singapore - Makine, right and left of the altar at the back of which stands Buddha behind his mother (various captions) - Chinese type (Singapore) - Indian village (Singapore) - Singapore police brigadier - Chinese woman on Hong Kong street - Hong Kong Chinese smoking. Summer costume (legends) - Chinese barber, Hong Kong street - European walking in a palanquin in the streets of Hong Kong - Chinese type from the village of Wousung? Near Shang-Hai - Pierre Nicolas Massa from the Chinese mission in Shanghai - Various drawings or watercolors, not captioned.
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