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After Lamqua, 19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed image 1
After Lamqua, 19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed image 2
After Lamqua, 19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed image 3
After Lamqua, 19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed image 4
After Lamqua, 19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed image 5
Lot 27

After Lamqua
19th Century
A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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After Lamqua, 19th Century

A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours
each numbered (verso)
gouache
each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5)
unframed

Footnotes

The Yale University collection holds eighty-six oil paintings by the Chinese artist Lamqua, depicting people with large tumours or other major medical deformities. These works were commissioned by Peter Parker (1804-1888) in the 1830s; a doctor-missionary who travelled to China in 1834 setting up an ophthalmic hospital in Canton the following year. The present works on paper are copied from the originals held in the Yale collection.

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