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Chinese sampan, used as a dwelling?
Mounted in album with PAI2486-PAI2499, PAI2501-PAI2513.
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Object details
ID:
PAI2500
Type:
Drawing
Display location:
Not on display
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:
Sheet: 340 x 400 mm
Parts:
Album of twenty eight watercolours of different kinds of Chinese craft, artist unknown (Album)
Chinese war canoe (Drawing) (PAI2486)
Chinese junk, used as a dwelling? (Drawing) (PAI2487)
Chinese junk, used as a store? or a shop? (Drawing) (PAI2488)
Chinese junk, used as a butcher shop (Drawing) (PAI2489)
Chinese junk, various structures covering deck, vessel elaborately painted (Drawing) (PAI2490)
Chinese junk, covered deck and two grotesque shields attached to side (Drawing) (PAI2491)
Chinese war junk (Drawing) (PAI2492)
Chinese sampan, chinamen standing up rowing (Drawing) (PAI2493)
Chinese junk, six oars and a single sail (Drawing) (PAI2494)
Chinese junk, two sails, awning covering deck (Drawing) (PAI2495)
Chinese junk, awning covering deck with a flat platform roof flags flying from a mast and the stern (Drawing) (PAI2496)
Chinese sampan, for carrying Chinese dignitories? (Drawing) (PAI2497)
Chinese royal? junk, flying many flags and elaborate deck house (Drawing) (PAI2498)
Chinese sampan, elaborate deck house (Drawing) (PAI2499)
Chinese sampan, used as a dwelling? (Drawing) (PAI2500)
Chinese sampan, ferrying apssengers (Drawing) (PAI2501)
Chinese junk, flying official? flags (Drawing) (PAI2502)
Chinese junk, deck completely covered, with a mast? lowered (Drawing) (PAI2503)
Chinese junk, in full sail, with an elaborate painted stern (Drawing) (PAI2504)
Chinese war junk, cannon mounted at the stern, with grotesque shields and spears (Drawing) (PAI2505)
Chinese sampan, used as a grocer's shop (Drawing) (PAI2506)
Chinese sampan, used as a dwelling? (Drawing) (PAI2507)
Chinese junk, two sails, awning covering deck (Drawing) (PAI2508)
Chinese sampan, three chinamen rowing, two at the bow, the other at the stern (Drawing) (PAI2509)
Chinese junk, two chinamen on board with a cargo in large round barrels (Drawing) (PAI2510)
Chinese junk, bow shaped into a curl with anchor resting on it, and deck covered with awning (Drawing) (PAI2511)
Chinese sampan, transporting tubs and pots (Drawing) (PAI2512)
Chinese sampan, used as a dwelling? (Drawing) (PAI2513)
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