Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :View up the River Keen-ee 15 Miles, above Koolongsoo - Amoy [South China]. See further on for continuation of this sketch. The building below here is called Tsue Tsung lou and was built by a rich man as a dressing room for his wife. [1844]

Date
1844
By
Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference
A-292-016
Description

View of a river with junks and sampans in foreground, with an elaborate small two-storied Chinese pavilion across the river in the right foreground. Collinson explains that tsue = dress, tsung = hair and lou = two-storied building.

Forms the left-hand side of a panorama with A-292-021

Quantity: 1 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Pencil & ink on cream wove paper 255 x 145 mm

Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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Part of
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850 / Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
Format
1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil & ink on cream wove paper 255 x 145 mm
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