Bords de La Rivière de Shanghai

by Paul Bonnetain, P. Nac, Author, Artist

A$125 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

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Paris . Circa 1887 . Stock ID #221448 Engraving with later colouring, signed lower left, 7.5 x 13cm; 10 x 16.5cm including caption preserved in a modern window mount 31 x 37.5cm, the sheet a little age toned but the engraving in very good condition. Tranquil engraving of 1880s Shanghai showing the banks of the Suzhou Creek looking back towards the Bund, published in L'Extrême Orient by traveller, writer and later colonial administrator Paul

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