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[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1843]. A charming antique print – a bird’s-eye view of Nanjing and the Yangtze. Engraved by Edward Radclyffe (1810?-1863) from an original sketch by Captain James Stoddart R.N. (who had served in the First Opium War) worked up for publication by the well-known Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work “China in a Series of Views” (London : 1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 149 x 190mm (approx. 5-7/8” x 7-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Fisher, Son & Co., [1843]. A striking antique print – curious rock formations in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian. Engraved by James Sands (1803-1882) from an original study by the well-known Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work “China in a Series of Views” (London : 1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 146 x 191mm (approx. 5-3/4” x 7-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1843]. An interesting and attractive antique print – a European depiction of the interior of a temple at Guangzhou. Engraved by William Holmes Capone (1810-1881) and originally produced for the part-work “China in a Series of Views” (London : 1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 148 x 189mm (approx. 5-3/4” x 7-1/2”). Very faint crease to lower margin, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810. An attractive antique print – a distant view of the celebrated Chinese city. Engraved by George Cooke for an unidentified early nineteenth-century publication.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 167 x 219mm (approx. 6-5/8” x 8-5/8”). Mild tanning to extreme outer margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Fisher, Son & Co., 1843]. A charming antique print – a festival procession, with a pagoda in the background. Engraved by Robert Sands (1782-1855) from a painting belonging to the old East India Company. Originally produced for the part-work “China in a Series of Views” (London : 1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 73 x 116mm (approx. 3-3/4” x 4-1/2”). A few tiny marks and specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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London : Thomas Kelly, [ca.1820]. A charming antique print – an early nineteenth-century English view of the celebrated Porcelain Tower at Nanjing. Originally produced for an unidentifed Thomas Kelly publication.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 142 x 204mm (approx. 6” x 8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Fisher, Son & Co., [1843]. A most attractive antique print – a prospect of Macao from the forts. Engraved by Samuel Fisher (fl.1830-1855) and originally produced for the part-work “China in a Series of Views” (London : 1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 147 x 189mm (approx. 5-7/8” x 7-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£50

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