Hand Colored Engraving by T. Allom: Grotto of Camoens, Macao, Framed

Somewhere, a tiny harbor view tucked into a very large white mat

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1843. It is ink on paper. Thomas Allom, an architect and founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects, illustrated books on China in the 1840s without ever making the trip there himself. In miniature, a hand-colored landscape with a rocky bluff topped by a small building, and distant hills under a pale sky. A caption line runs below. A thin bright slip edge and a dark, richly molded frame surround it. It is 22.25 inches wide and 20.75 high.

A lot of frame for such a polite little hillside.