Dutch School, first half of the 18th century A Dutch Chart of the Gulf of Tongkin and the South China Sea, including the Coastlines of Southern China, and the Islands of Hainan, Formosa [Taiwan], Luzon [Philippines], and Batavia, Java single sheet, verso blank, coastlines heightened in green, province names and major towns in sepia, major islands in red, numerous rhumblines based on a central compass rose, two inset detailed plans of the Pearl River to Canton, and an anchorage on the North Vietnam coast near Apelle island, three scale bars (two within each inset), important forts, beacons, batteries and flag stations depicted by symbols, numerous symbols representing cliffs, navigational obstructions and sandbars, central latitudinal graticule and tropic of Cancer ruled in red, inscribed '1759 / Verbeterde, Raast van / de Pracelles tot Canton' on the reverse pen, sepia, black and red inks and watercolour on paper 31 ¾ x 41 ½in. (80.6 x 105.3cm.) Provenance Anon. sale, Christie’s Swire, Hong Kong, 26 Sept. 1989, lot 1070.
Dutch School, first half of the 18th century A Dutch Chart of the Gulf of Tongkin and the South China Sea, including the Coastlines of Southern China, and the Islands of Hainan, Formosa [Taiwan], Luzon [Philippines], and Batavia, Java single sheet, verso blank, coastlines heightened in green, province names and major towns in sepia, major islands in red, numerous rhumblines based on a central compass rose, two inset detailed plans of the Pearl River to Canton, and an anchorage on the North Vietnam coast near Apelle island, three scale bars (two within each inset), important forts, beacons, batteries and flag stations depicted by symbols, numerous symbols representing cliffs, navigational obstructions and sandbars, central latitudinal graticule and tropic of Cancer ruled in red, inscribed '1759 / Verbeterde, Raast van / de Pracelles tot Canton' on the reverse pen, sepia, black and red inks and watercolour on paper 31 ¾ x 41 ½in. (80.6 x 105.3cm.) Provenance Anon. sale, Christie’s Swire, Hong Kong, 26 Sept. 1989, lot 1070.
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