Action between a Large Chinese Row-Galley and a Small Cutter of H.M.S. Amethyst in the Canton River, on the 19 July. caption title

by Second Opium War

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London. The Illustrated London News. 6 November 1858. Stock ID #217676 Black and white wood engraving prepared for The Illustrated London News trimmed 16.7 x 27.7cms including caption and margins , a few marginal spots, unrelated text on the verso, the image in very good condition. Dramatic image of an incident on the Canton now Pearl River near Guangzhou, between a Chinese galley and a British vessel from H.M.S.

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