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Property from the Kelton Collection
Anonymous, Canton School, after Lt. Col. William G. Masters (act. 1840-1861)
Attack on the Taku Forts, circa 1861Oil on canvas, on a stretcher, framed and glazed12 x 19 3/4in (30.5 x 50.2cm)
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佚名 仿William G. Masters 大沽口戰役 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八五九年作Captain William Godfrey Rayston Masters, R.M. (fl. 1840-1861) served in the Anglo-Chinese war of 1859-60 as an officer in the Royal Marines, attached to the frigate Chesapeake. A series of eight lithographs by the English maritime artist Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton (1820–1891) illustrating "Operations at the entrance of the Pei-ho River" after Masters' drawings were published by Day & Son in 1861. [Martyn Gregory, Artists of the China Coast, London: 1994, 23, no. 39.]This view is seen from the junks along the Peiho river during the Battle of the Taku Forts on June 25, 1859. The present lot shows the American ship Toey-Wan under the command of Josiah Tattnall attempting to aid the British forces lead by Admiral Hope. The story of the Toey-Wan and Josiah Tattnall (1795-1871), who was first a commander of the Confederate Navy, are recounted in many volumes, see for example: Sir William Laird Clowes, et al., The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria, Vol. 7, London, 1903, 128-132.