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Factories at Canton
Canton was the port used by Western merchants. This view shows the quarters, called factories or hongs, which foreign merchants were allowed to live in during the four-month trading season.
Height: 250 mm
Width: 337 mm
Method of acquisition: Given (1909) by Bothamley, Rev. H.
Drawing : Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid lown with with strips of blue silk-covered paper
Accession number: 4163(1)
Primary reference Number: 185525
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