The Hongs at Canton

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The Hongs at Canton
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Artist/Maker
Datec. 1860
MediumGouache on paper
DimensionsComposition: 4 3/4 × 7 in. (12.1 × 17.8 cm) Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 1/2 in. (23.7 × 29.2 cm) Support: 10 11/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.1 × 32.5 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 number2011.1.1
Not on view
DescriptionWatercolor depicting Chinese merchant (Hongs) ships and buildings in port at Canton, now Guangzhou, China

Additional Details

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.
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil at lower center of support: "Hongs at CANTON"; in pencil at lower left of support:"Bin #45 F.S"; in pencil at lower right of support: "Artist Unknown / Chinese Treaty Post with Boats" [lines through]; in pencil at lower right corner of support: "MWP / 66.43"; in pencil along upper left side of sheet [sideways]: "Neilson 3" gold mat"
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