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| Artist: | Charles Lewis Fussell | ||||||||||
| Title: | Street Show, Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Media: | Oil on canvas mounted on board, 5 x 4 inches | ||||||||||
| Description: | Signed at lower right: “C. L. Fussell”; inscribed at lower left: “Street Show/Hong Kong” These five ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) undated, small grisaille illustrations of daily life in Hong Kong and Singapore are stylistically similar to Fussell’s Academy Students Dissecting a Horse (1879, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), which was the source for an engraving published that year in Scribner’s Magazine. It is likely that these ethnographic scenes were also painted as illustrations for a magazine article or book. These paintings are possibly related to an oriental subject that Fussell exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1878, a pen and ink drawing called The Heathen Chinee (location unknown). A sixth painting from the series, Malay Charrie, Singapore, is in a private collection.1 Note 1. All six were illustrated in American Paintings, Philadelphia Collection XXVI (Philadelphia: Schwarz Gallery, December 1984), nos. 69–74. copyright © 2018 Schwarz Gallery | ||||||||||
| Price: | Price upon request | ||||||||||
| Inventory: | RS 1312 | ||||||||||
| Category: | •a:Philadelphia•ethnic•Far East•genre•Illustration•music•nineteenth century• | ||||||||||
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