CHINA, QINHANGDAO -- [MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF CITY OF CHINWANGTAO] . Manuscript plan on linen, ink and wash, 890 x 1600mm. [Chinwangtao; c.1905]. The plan showing old walled city running alongside the Great Wall of China as it sweeps down to the coast, in front of the city the new railway line running along the coast, with the railway station and forts of the Russians, Germans, British, Italian, French and Japanese, alongside the International Club, headquaters of the 41st Dogras Brick Kilns, Police Station, Soda Water factory, railway hotel, Russian Post Office and Chinese Police Station, the map with blue edge borders and the Gulf of Liam Tang (Bohai Sea) decorated with an American Cruiser equipped with guns and various local craft, the map mounted on wooden side rollers. (Verso slightly browned, small hole at lower right corner.) Provenance: Mark Eliot, 2nd Lieutenant, 41st Dogras; by descent.
CHINA, QINHANGDAO -- [MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF CITY OF CHINWANGTAO] . Manuscript plan on linen, ink and wash, 890 x 1600mm. [Chinwangtao; c.1905]. The plan showing old walled city running alongside the Great Wall of China as it sweeps down to the coast, in front of the city the new railway line running along the coast, with the railway station and forts of the Russians, Germans, British, Italian, French and Japanese, alongside the International Club, headquaters of the 41st Dogras Brick Kilns, Police Station, Soda Water factory, railway hotel, Russian Post Office and Chinese Police Station, the map with blue edge borders and the Gulf of Liam Tang (Bohai Sea) decorated with an American Cruiser equipped with guns and various local craft, the map mounted on wooden side rollers. (Verso slightly browned, small hole at lower right corner.) Provenance: Mark Eliot, 2nd Lieutenant, 41st Dogras; by descent. A fascinating map of the European view of Qinhuangdao in China at the turn of the century probably drawn up by a Chinese hand, and acquired by a British officer on duty with the 41st Dogras, c.1905. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion 1899-1900, most foreign forces were withdrawn by 1901, but the treaty nations were allowed to maintain a permanent force in 12 locations in the Beijing, Tientsin, Chinwangtao triangle for the protection of their legations and foreign residential areas. The 1st Batallion of the 41st Dogras was an Indian regiment raised in 1900, and was sent to Chinwangtao in 1904, returning in 1908. Quinhuangdao is the chief port of Hebei Province
CHINA, QINHANGDAO -- [MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF CITY OF CHINWANGTAO] . Manuscript plan on linen, ink and wash, 890 x 1600mm. [Chinwangtao; c.1905]. The plan showing old walled city running alongside the Great Wall of China as it sweeps down to the coast, in front of the city the new railway line running along the coast, with the railway station and forts of the Russians, Germans, British, Italian, French and Japanese, alongside the International Club, headquaters of the 41st Dogras Brick Kilns, Police Station, Soda Water factory, railway hotel, Russian Post Office and Chinese Police Station, the map with blue edge borders and the Gulf of Liam Tang (Bohai Sea) decorated with an American Cruiser equipped with guns and various local craft, the map mounted on wooden side rollers. (Verso slightly browned, small hole at lower right corner.) Provenance: Mark Eliot, 2nd Lieutenant, 41st Dogras; by descent.
CHINA, QINHANGDAO -- [MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF CITY OF CHINWANGTAO] . Manuscript plan on linen, ink and wash, 890 x 1600mm. [Chinwangtao; c.1905]. The plan showing old walled city running alongside the Great Wall of China as it sweeps down to the coast, in front of the city the new railway line running along the coast, with the railway station and forts of the Russians, Germans, British, Italian, French and Japanese, alongside the International Club, headquaters of the 41st Dogras Brick Kilns, Police Station, Soda Water factory, railway hotel, Russian Post Office and Chinese Police Station, the map with blue edge borders and the Gulf of Liam Tang (Bohai Sea) decorated with an American Cruiser equipped with guns and various local craft, the map mounted on wooden side rollers. (Verso slightly browned, small hole at lower right corner.) Provenance: Mark Eliot, 2nd Lieutenant, 41st Dogras; by descent. A fascinating map of the European view of Qinhuangdao in China at the turn of the century probably drawn up by a Chinese hand, and acquired by a British officer on duty with the 41st Dogras, c.1905. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion 1899-1900, most foreign forces were withdrawn by 1901, but the treaty nations were allowed to maintain a permanent force in 12 locations in the Beijing, Tientsin, Chinwangtao triangle for the protection of their legations and foreign residential areas. The 1st Batallion of the 41st Dogras was an Indian regiment raised in 1900, and was sent to Chinwangtao in 1904, returning in 1908. Quinhuangdao is the chief port of Hebei Province
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