View of the town of Guangzhou or Kwangchow, southern China. Two-storey buildings on the docks and many small ships and boats on the Pearl River. Flags of Britain and Holland on flagpoles. Vue de la ville de Canton. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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