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Scene in Canton
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1774-1852
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Width: 19.7 cm
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Literature
no. 38
p. 44
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 10
Inscriptions
Label: Detached from old mount, now kept separately from file: graphite: artist's name and dates, title and date of work.
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, black ink, partly lost in trimming: "[...]+ Dutch Factories Canton / [...] 13.1832."; upper right, black ink: artist's shorthand notes (which according to Conner 2011 are giving instructions, i.e. to paint the flag red, white and blue). Verso: entire sheet, graphite, part of a letter in the artist's hand, hard to read and cut off: "[...] my sketch is not worthy of / but I made it the day before / yesterday, exactly opposite the Door / where I live & it may not be un[...] / to you - the locality may give it an / Interest - Anyone who has been in / Canton will vouch for its fidelity / GC / March. / 15.32".
Collector's mark: none.
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