Hand Colored Engraving by T. Allom: House of Chinese Merchant, Near Canton

Just a stilted waterside house with red roofs trails its reflection across a duck pond

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1843. It is ink on paper. Orientalism, a genre of art about the East, is generally traced to Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Egypt, which encouraged scholars and artists to visit and document North Africa and the Middle East. Presented here, a hand-colored scene of a large residence with tiled roofs and porches over the water, a small boat with figures at the bottom right, and swimming birds in front. Green trees close the left edge. Captions print below. It is 10.5 inches wide and 7.7 high.

A house with its feet in the pond and no worries.