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City with white architecture and brown roofs. Bay filled with variety of sailing vessels and a steamship.
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Seascape
Seascape
"Artful Stories": After the American Revolution, trade with China played a key role in the development of New Englands economy. New England ships took ginseng from the Appalachian Mountains or furs from the Pacific Northwest to sell in China; they returned with cargoes of silks, porcelain, tea, and luxury furnishings. Sets of paintings showing scenes along the Pearl River delta proved especially popular. This example depicts the harbor at Macau during the middle years of the China trade.
Unknown
Macau, China
23 x 36 x 2 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of William P. Dudley
1932.306
China
Possibly
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