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An original 19th century watercolour(1857) that is entitled in the back in manuscript: 'Fusankai City, Tschaosien, Corea' signed by R. W. Clarke, Greenwich Hospital

Size:21.5 x 13 cm. 3rd image is The Illustrated London News dated April 24,1858 in which the same illustration (engraving) was mounted from the Sketches of R.W.Clarke which was painted in the fall of 1857 in Pusan,Korea. We are afraid that there is no record in DNB on Mr. R. W. Clarke in the United Kingdom. The last image is The Chosun Ilbo dated November 26,2003 (one of the largest and leading daily newspapers in Korea) reporting this old material on Korea. The Illustrated London News dated April 24,1858: (SKECHES IN JAPAN AND COREA) The harbour of Tschaosia,or Chosen,is near Cape Vashon,and has its front same fine black rocks; the anchorage is round magnetic points ,has good depth of water,and is well sheltered.The hills are thinly covered with firs,and all available flats are cultivated in the terraces and irrigated by the little mountain streamlets. The inhabitants were seen walking about in loose ,flowing robes,and waering a strange black hat with a high crown ; the substance is finely split bamboo-the manner of drawing up the hair and twisting it renders it necessary to secure the hat by strings,Some of the hats of basket-work were enormously large. The dresses were of white or unbleached grass-cloth,or muslin sleeves ,hanging and open; a girdle round the waist;the feet covered with cotton stockings and curious straw shoes. The elegant carriage and passing expression of these people arrested our attention,and made us wish them less rigidly exclusive ;for, on attempting to visit the city of Fusankai,the crowds on the beach and on the jetty of rough stones would not allow us to advance on step from the boat,while they could neither be induced to receive our letters to the authorities ,nor to communicate with the Chinese interpreter who was with us.

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