Thomas Gardiner

Estate / Collection: Estate of Bartlett Burnap

British, active 1830s
View of Macao; Whampoa Anchorage; The Bocca Tigris; and The Factories of Canton: Four Views of the Pearl River Delta,South China
Each inscribed Thomas Gardiner H.C.S. [Honorable Company Ship] Asia and dated 1832-1833 on the wooden backing
Each gouache on paper
Each approximately 4 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (11.7 x 19 cm)
Frames 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (21.6 x 29.3 cm)
Thomas Gardiner made several voyages to India and China aboard the East India Company's ships Duke of York and Asia. He was the purser on the H. C. S. Asia when she sailed to Madras, Bengal, and China in 1831-32. An oil painting of the H.C.S. Asia by Wiliam Huggins, as well as Gardiner's journals of his voyages, are in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

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