IDENTIFIERS
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id:	185591
accession number:	4167.2

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 4 October 2011
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A watercolour drawing from the album 4167, which depicts the tea industry in China. It shows men sowing seeds at a tea tree farm. Until the 1850s, China was the world's only tea supplier to the West. The trade was centred in Guangzhou (Canton), where Chinese merchants known as Hong merchants were the only authorized traders to deal with foreign companies. The tea trade operated under the "Canton System," which strictly regulated foreign trade through designated merchants and specific protocols. Previously described as "cultivating the plants".
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185591





TECHNIQUES
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watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper
drawing

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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creation date:	1840 - 1870
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1870
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Youqua

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 250

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 337



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