Attributed to Youqua (Chinese, active Mid-19th Century)
View of the Whampoa Anchorage
circa 1835-1850
oil on canvas laid to board
unsigned
the foreground with British, French, and American ships at anchor, and with Pazhou Pagoda on Pazhou Island, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, in the middle distance
17 1/4 x 23 inches.

Exhibited:
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, East Meets West: Chinese Export Art and Design, June 19-October 11, 1998.

Framed: 21 3/4 x 27 1/2 inches.
In overall fair condition. Oil on canvas that has been cut from its original stretchers, laid to board with the board being canvas backed. Craquelure visible throughout and cracks along the old stretcher lines visible to the front of the work. The current coat of varnish is slightly darkened/yellowed. Examination under UV shows an even varnish throughout and one 1” x 1” area of over-painting, likely a patch, in the upper right quadrant, in the sky.