Title

Sketches in Canton - Appearance of a Busy Street...after a Visit from "The Barbarians", 1858. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Sketches in Canton - Appearance of a Busy Street in Canton after a Visit from "The Barbarians" on their burning and plundering raid, 1858. Destruction caused by British forces. 'They have been destroying, looting, and burning, and are loaded with all manner of property, and all are delighted with their morning's fun, as everything in the fighting or destroying line is humorously called...In a very short time this busy suburb, which three days before was teeming with life and an industrious, hardworking population, presented a scene of really awful desolation: nothing but gutted and broken shells of houses remained, from which presently large, heavy masses of rolling smoke began to ascend; from house to house the avenging Fanquis went, piled their wood and fired it, and then a dead silence reigned, followed by the crackling of thousands of houses on fire at once'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A82_123

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27,6Mb (2,5Mb) / 12,9in x 8,3in / 3884 x 2481 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings destruction house houses arts country sign law China art Chinese smoke crime burning British color ruins ruin war location Armed Forces century empire Britain newspapers press print concept ruined controversy B&W arson canton aftermath Army warfare controversial engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services white and black on fire Guangzhou British Army looting nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire Illustrated London News Opium Wars plunder plundering TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century