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Trade Art Trade art was the China Coast's answer to the absense of photography in the early decades of the nineteenth century. George Chinnery, who worked in Macau and Hong Kong in the 1830s and 1840s, was the king of the Trade Art world, but Shanghai had its fair share of such works as well. The paintings were often commissioned by the Taipans who wanted to preserve for posterity a record of their achievements, as evidenced by the growing line of buildings and the bustling water traffic, clippers and junks and warships jostling for space.
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Red Rover
Idas
Bund 1930s
Waterwitch
Bund by C. 1860.
British consulate
The Bund by ChowKwa 
Bund C. 1850
Temple by Prinsep
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