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A MAGNIFICANT LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY ANGLO CHINESE ALBUM OF PAINTINGS Attributed to Win Achun , of exceptional quality and size, depicting botanical and studies of insects, the album also containing typical Chinese street scenes, the album consisting of seventeen botanical studies and twenty four chinese figural studies. Each painting 48 cm x 36 cm. Note: In the eighteenth to nineteenth century, British botanists collected thousands of Chinese plants to advance their knowledge of natural history. John Bradby Blake was the first British botanist to systematically collect Chinese plants in the 1770s, a time when foreigners could only access Guangzhou (Canton), Also in the late eighteenth century there arose a demand from Europeans for natural history paintings from China and the East Indies. Chinese painters produced stock sets of pictures, mostly of exotic flowers, fruit, birds and insects, for the western market. Many patrons would provide the artists with English paper, The works sent back by traders to China, executed to a high standard, helped both in the development of botanical art, and the spread of knowledge about new plants. (41)
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