Clippers in the China Trade: the ex-yacht 'Falcon' and other clippers on the Chinese coast<br><p>Inscribed: “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).
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Signed by artist as “N.M.Condy” on plate (in the extreme foreground in the waves at right).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nicholas_Matthews_Condy" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nicholas Matthews Condy"><span title="British artist (1816-1851)">Nicholas Matthews Condy</span></a>
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