Double portrait of Walter Henry Medhurst and Choo-Tih-Lang, both full length, seated in cane chairs, the former with a paper in his lap and the latter writing at a table, Medhurst dressed in a dark frockcoat and pantaloons and Choo-Tih-Lang in traditional Chinese dress of a gown and round cap, a Malay boy in a striped shirt, mantle and trousers holding a book at Medhurst's side, books and a vase on the matting floor, a window behind flanked by Chinese calligraphy and a tree visible beyond
Coloured stipple and engraving.
(from: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1949-1011-90)

Hillier 2020 describes this as the frontispiece to Medhurst's book "China: Its State and Prospects", and based on the watercolour by George Baxter (Hillier's fig.2) which is now in Archives and Special Collections, SOAS, ref: CWM/LMS/Home/China Pictures/12 (CWM/LMS/01/09/05/08/12)

George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing.

Rare old original Baxters print.

This is an original oil print dating from around 1842.

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