Un Coin de La Rivière de Shanghai, Vue du Jardin Public

by Paul Bonnetain, P. Nac, Author, Artist

A$125 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

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Paris . Circa 1887 . Stock ID #221449 Engraving with later colouring, signed lower right, 13 x 16.5cm; 16 x 19.5cm 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. Finely detailed engraving of 1880s Shanghai showing the Public Garden looking towards the Bund. Published in L'Extrême Orient by traveller, writer and later colonial administrator Paul

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