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Artist/MakerStudio of
Tingqua
(Chinese, 1809 – 1870)
Date1845-1855
MediumGouache on paper
DimensionsComposition: 6 11/16 × 9 13/16 in. (17 × 24.9 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 11 1/8 × 12 5/16 in. (28.2 × 31.2 cm)
Support: 11 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (29.9 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY. Gift of Joseph and Neilson Rudd in memory of Thomas Brown Rudd and Helen Neilson Rudd
Object number2011.1.2
Not on view
DescriptionAfter the winter trading season in Canton, Western merchants made their way down to Macao, where they often spent the rest of the year with their families. The Portuguese had access to Macao since the 16th century and brought with them religious customs and architecture, such as São Paulo church, visible in the background. This particular scene depicts both Chinese and Westerners interspersed in the harbor landscape. Westerners were barred from moving inward on the Chinese mainland, however.
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Alternate Titles
Macao from the North
Provenance
2011: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute;
1966 - 2011: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, N.Y., by gift of Joseph and Neilson Rudd;
?: Arthur R. Snyder Art Shop, Newburgh, NY.
1966 - 2011: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, N.Y., by gift of Joseph and Neilson Rudd;
?: Arthur R. Snyder Art Shop, Newburgh, NY.
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil on sheet at upper left [upside down]: "gold mats / 2 1/2""; in pencil on sheet at upper left [sideways]: "Neilson"; in pencil on support at lower right [sideways]: "MWP / 66.42"; in pencil on support at lower right [sideways]: "Artist Unknown [lines through A.U.] (TiNgquA) MACAO / Chinese Treaty Port with Figures [lines through all second line]"; in pencil at upper right of support [sideways]: "Bin #14 F.S."
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