print
- Museum number
- 1875,0508.45
- Title
- Object: A-You / A-Shing / Native of China at home at the Chinese Collection, Hyde Park Corner
- Description
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Portrait of two Chinese men, one sitting at right facing front, the other standing behind to left, small table at far left, oval window behind the men and view with pagoda beyond. 1846
Aquatint
- Production date
- 1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 347 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This must be one of the prints published to promote the "Chinese Museum" set up at Hyde Park Corner in 1842 by Nathan Dunn (1782- 1844), an American philanthropist. See also 1872,1012.3955 for another portrait of the same sitters where they were more realistically represented from a photograph.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0508.45