REVEALING THE EAST • Cover illustration: no. 50 (detail) 2 REVEALING THE EAST Historical pictures by Chinese and Western artists 1750-1950 2 REVEALING THE EAST Historical pictures by Chinese and Western artists 1750-1950 MARTYN GREGORY CATALOGUE 91 2013-14 Martyn Gregory Gallery, 34 Bury Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6AU, UK tel (44) 20 7839 3731 fax (44) 20 7930 0812 email
[email protected] www.martyngregory.com 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our thanks are due to the following individuals who have generously assisted in the preparation of catalogue entries: Jeremy Fogg Susan Chen Hardy Andrew Lo Ken Phillips Eric Politzer Geoffrey Roome Roy Sit Kai Sin Paul Van Dyke Ming Wilson Frances Wilson 4 CONTENTS page Works by European and other artists 7 Works by Chinese artists 34 Works related to Burma (Myanmar) 81 5 6 PAINTINGS BY EUROPEAN AND OTHER ARTISTS 2. J. Barlow, 1771 1. Thomas Allom (1804-1872) A prospect of a Chinese village at the Island of Macao ‘Close of the attack on Shapoo, - the Suburbs on fire’ Pen and ink and grey wash, 5 ½ x 8 ins Pencil and sepia wash, 5 x 7 ½ ins Signed and dated ‘I Barlow 1771’, and inscribed as title Engraved by H. Adlard and published with the above title in George N. Wright, China, in a series of views…, 4 vols., 1843, vol. The author of this remarkably early drawing of Macau was III, opp. p.49 probably the ‘Mr Barlow’ who is recorded in the East India Company’s letter books: on 4 August 1771 he was given permission Thomas Allom’s detailed watercolour would probably have been by the Governor and Council of Fort St George, Madras (Chennai) redrawn from an eye-witness sketch supplied to him by one of to sail from there to Macau on the Company ship Horsendon (letter the officer-artists involved in the First Opium War, such as Lt received 22 Sep.