PY0670

Clippers in the China Trade: the ex-yacht 'Falcon' and other clippers on the Chinese coast. Long Caption: nscribed: “Clippers in the China Trade. To Alexander Matheson Esqre. This print of the ‘Falcon’, F. Jauncey Esq. Commander and other clippers on the China-Coast… is respectfully dedicated by his most obedient servant Edmund Fry”. Captain Jauncey surveyed where he was trading on the China Coast and published a number of charts. The ‘Falcon’ became an opium clipper in 1840 after Jardine Matheson bought her. Accordingly she (along with the other ships included in the background) flies a pennant from her maintop bearing the company house flag (white saltire on blue background). Signed by artist as “N.M.Condy” on plate (in the extreme foreground in the waves at right). Credit line: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: PAH0670 Artist: Condy, Nicholas Matthew [artist]; Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth [engraver]; Day & Haghe [publishers] [printers]; Rudolph Ackermann [publishers]; Foster, William [publisher]; Edmund Fry [publisher] Date: 1840-1851 Medium: lithograph, tinted Size: Sheet: 378 x 543 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.