The Macartney Embassy to Peking
18th Nov 2022 - Rare and Early Books
Early books on China: Towards the end of 1792, Lord Macartney and a large retinue of staff, servants, militia, musicians,
Sometimes you make a small find which gives you pleasure. In this case a very small find in an early New Zealand water colour by Gerald Butler Beere, no title, until we opened it up to restore it and found one on the back, and then a little gem emerged of Lake Waikare in the Waikato. If you have an eye for colonial water colours, you will recognise the palette with the characteristic blues and straw colours – did they all work with the same set of paints? You can see it and read about it here.
18th Nov 2022 - Rare and Early Books
Early books on China: Towards the end of 1792, Lord Macartney and a large retinue of staff, servants, militia, musicians,
3rd Jan 2023 - Blog
There is a new piece now posted in Early China books (read more) on the seven French Jesuit priests recruited