[PERRY, COMMODORE MATTHEW] BROWN, ELIPHALET; HEINE, WILHELM; SARONY & CO. (LITHOGRAPHERS)

Whampoa Pagoda & Anchorage. [Caption title]

(Washington). (A.O.P. Nicholson). [circa 1856.]. Stock ID #176564

Tinted lithograph 21.8 x 15.4 cm, 28.9 x 21.7 cm (sheet), edges a little age-toned, one corner stained, but the image in very good condition.

A view of the famous Whampoa pagoda rendered on the spot ("From nature") by William Heine with figures from a daguerrotype by Eliphalet Bronwn, prepared for Commodore Perry's "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan...". Perry visited Whampoa on the Canton river in 1853, and his narrative noted in addition to the pagoda's religious significance, "its usefulness as a land mark by foreign vessels for they steer and anchor by its bearings."

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