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Auction 139, Lot 624
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"Going to the Shanghai "Derby"", Graphic, The

Subject: Shanghai China

Period: 1879 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
20 x 12 inches
50.8 x 30.5 cm
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The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper created in 1869 by William Luson Thomas, a successful artist and social reformer. This engraving depicts a highly animated scene of the crowds going to the Derby in Shanghai. On verso are several English articles, including one on "The Derby Week,"

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Condition: A

Lovely color with faint offsetting in right blank margin.

Estimate: $200 - $240

Sold for: $150

Closed on 2/15/2012

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