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CHINA TRADE SCHOOL, MID-19th CENTURY P.O.C.F., GANGES PROCEEDING THROUGH THE BOGUE FORTS, CHINA Inscribed with title, oil on fine stretchered canvas laid on board, within an ebonised frame with leafy scroll decoration 44 x 58cm. * Three vessels of this name are recorded as the property of the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Navigation Company. The first vessel was sold to Sicily prior to completion; the second was built in 1850 and sold in 1871 to Rennie & Co in Shanghai; and the third, built in 1882, was burnt out in Bombay sixteen years later. The Bogue (also known as The Humen and Bocca Tigris) is a strait on the Pearl River Delta and separates Shiziyang and Lingdingang in China's Guangdong Province. Eight forts were built to defend the Strait as it was of strategic significance for access to Guangzhou (Canton).