The Sampans from Canton: F H af Chapman’s Chinese Gouaches

The Sampans from Canton is a collection of 99 Chinese gouaches from the second half of the 18th century.

For more than 200 years, the gouaches hung in Skärfva Manor House, the home of shipbuilder and dockyard manager Vice Admiral Fredric Henric af Chapman, on the outskirts of Karlskrona, Sweden.

The book is the first detailed account of the collection and examines the gouaches from both an art history and an historical perspective.