Watercolors from an album documenting Lieutenant Colonel William Godfrey Rason’s 1857-1861expedition from England to Southeast Asia with the Royal Marines, on board HMS Chesapeake. Bonham’s website states that there are 65 watercolors. The post here includes the ones that are shown in their catalog.

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“The Princess Charlotte – Hong Kong 1857.” Signed on the lower right. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“At the Gun Battery, Chatham.” 1857-1861. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
No description shown. 1857-1861. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
No description shown. 1857-1861. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Port Louis Mauritius taken from the bell buoy at anchor – The Pouce Mountain.”857-1861. Signed on the lower right. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Nagasaki, Japan.” 1861. Signed and dated on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Chinese gun in the Taku Forts” (upper image). “Rocks – Miau-Tau Islands.” (lower image). 1857-1861. Both signed on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“View of the Taku forts mouth of ? River north of China. Attacked successfully 23rd June, 1856.” (upper image) “In the market – Tientsin” (bottom left); “Tatar ponies – Camp near Tientsin – 1860” (bottom right). 1856 and 1860. All three signed on the lower right.. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Joss house and bazaar at the camp – Tientsin 1860” (upper image) and “In the Market – Camp – Tientsin October, 1860” (lower image). 1860. Both signed on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“H.M.S. Atlantic after a collision in Hong Kong Harbor.” 1857-1861. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“City and Suburbs of Nan Tau -1859” (upper image); “Boats of Kintang (?)” (lower image). 1857-1861. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“1859 – at Kowloon looking towards the Halfmoon Pass.” 1859. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Cape Bab-el-Mandeb – Entrance to Red Sea – Island of Perim” (upper image); “Waterspout at Jeddah – Red Sea- 23rd December, 1858 – as seen from H.M.S. Chesapeake.” 1858. Lower watercolor signed on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1

“Cape Bab-el-Mandeb – Entrance to Red Sea – Island of Perim” (upper image); “Waterspout near Jeddah – Red Sea – 23rd December, 1858 as seen from H.M.S. Chesapeake” (lower image). 1858. Waterspout watercolor signed on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1
“Aden from H.MS. Chesapeake.” Signed and dated 1858 lower center Image © Bonhams 2001-2021. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27097/lot/5/?category=list&length=12&page=1

At the time of the Second Opium War (1856-1860).

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