Collection of twelve landscape paintings, China, Canton, 19th century Horizontal in format, each painting is executed on pith paper using natural pigments in the gouache style. They have retained their fresh colors and depict lakeside landscapes with pavilions, sampans, junks and people going about their business. All at different seasons of the year. Each painting is surrounded by blue gauze. The cover is in polychrome yellow, green, red and blue silk with floral decoration. 30.5 x 23 cm This type of painting on marrow paper was particularly produced for export.