[The Old Summer Palace, Beijing]
c1920s-1930s. Watercolour with pencil, titled in Chinese in lower margin, 23 x 31.4cm. Slight crease to upper left corner, foxing overall. Prov.: W.A. Pennell estate. In 1860 during the Second Opium War, two British envoys, a journalist for The Times and their escort of British and Indian troopers met with..... More