CHINA Canton Street Scene !! ALLOM Steel Engraving

CHINA Canton Street Scene !! ALLOM Steel Engraving (image 1/1)
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Steel Engraving from1858! --- another quality print from Martin2001 --- A Street in Canton Artist: Allom - Engraver: Capone Published by the London Printing and Publishing Company 100+ years old art print ... in excellent condition ... reverse side is blank ! Size: Size of the image: 5 x 7 1/4, overall 8 x 11 inches. 1 inch = 2,54 cm. Condition: Excellent condition . Light overall age toning. Paper weight: Thick - Heavier to Medium Heavy - Slightly Heavier - Thin. An excerpt from the original description: Deficiency of scientific knowledge in architecture, especially in the formation and support of the roof, has impeded the efforts of builders in China, so that the houses seldom rise higher than two stories; and even this elevation is chiefly attained by the aid of wooden frame-work, such as was once imported into this country from Holland, and such as may yet be seen in Chester and other ancient cities of Great Britain. The houses of the richer classes are frequently of brick—of the less prosperous, of brick and wood, or of the latter only—but, of the poorest class, of unbaked clay or mud. Kien-lung observed, on looking over a portfolio of English architectural views, that " ground must be very scarce in our country, since we were under the necessity of building such high houses." The engraving will give a correct idea read more
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