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CHUSAN off English Coast

AC/02089/00

Object category: PAINTING

Date made: 1887

Maker: NEVILLE-CUMMING, Richard Henry

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Material/medium: Gouache on paper heightened with white

Dimensions:

  • Sight: 19 cm x 26.8 cm

This painting of CHUSAN, the first Company ship to sail to Australia in 1852, was commissioned in 1887 in celebration of P&O's Jubilee.