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Property from the Kelton Collection
Anonymous, Canton School
The Great Fire, Canton, 1822Oil on canvas, on a stretcher, framed and glazed.8 1/2 x 10 3/4in (21.6 x 27.3cm)
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佚名 廣州商館大火 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八二二年作ProvenanceSotheby's, New York, 10-11 April 1986, lot 66來源紐約蘇富比,1986年4月10-11日,拍品編號66The present lot depicts the devastating fire that swept through the Foreign Factories in Canton in November of 1822. The view illustrates the buildings ablaze with junks bearing witness to the conflagration in the foreground. A second depiction of the 1822 fire is in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art and illustrated in Sargent, Views of the Pearl River Delta, Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong, 1997, pp. 174-175.