IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 185525 accession number: 4163.1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 23 September 2011 updated: Thursday 23 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Canton, the modern day Guangzhou, was the sole foriegn trading port in China from 1757 to 1842. It was the largest city and capital of the Guangdong province, located on the Southeast coast of China. This illustration depicts the 13-hongs area, the site for trading. Hong is the Cantonese phrase for company or factory, in which the foreign merchants were allowed to reside during the four-month trading season.French, British and Dutch flags are seen from left to right. The illustrations for such port scenes are usually rather objective and realistic. title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185525 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid lown with with strips of blue silk-covered paper watercolour CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Youqua DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 250 dimension: Width units: mm value: 337 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/large_4163_281_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_4163_281_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4163_281_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 839 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_4163_281_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/227/large_4163_1__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 772 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/227/mid_4163_1__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 377 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4163(1)_201106_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/227/preview_4163_1__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/227/4163_1__201106_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4008 pixels width: 5317 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/628/large_4163_1__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/628/mid_4163_1__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4163(1)_201106_amt49_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/628/preview_4163_1__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/628/4163_1__201106_amt49_dc1.ptif height: 3957 pixels width: 4835 pixels