(CHINA TRADE WATERCOLORS.) Album of 140 hand-painted leaves of parochial figures engaged in occupational, commercial,medicinal, ceremonial, and recreational settings. Ink, gouache, and watercolor on sheets of thin laid paper. Disbound with fragments of original covers preserved, approximately 11x7 inches; each sheet with stitching holes from original binding, scattered pigment offsetting, various tears, chips and small losses mainly keeping to the edges and only occasionally affecting the ruled borders but not the images; manuscript presentation note "George W. Andrews to Miss Hillman. Shanghai, March…" pasted to upper cover. China, first part of the nineteenth century
