Creator:

Sherwill, Walter Stanhope

Title:
Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese market / from drawings made by Captain Walter S. Sherwill.
Alternate Title(s):
Indian opium, its mode of preparation for the Chinese market
Published / Created:

London : James Madden, 1851.

Physical Description:
[8] leaves, [7] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 36 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
HV5840.I5 S54 1851+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:2754612
Classification:
Books
Notes:

Cover title: The Indian opium, its mode of preparation for the Chinese market. From drawings by Capt. Walter S. Sherwill, Royal Native Infantry, Revenue Surveyor.

Tinted lithographs by Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 478

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards.

MUDD WE 1764: Poor condition. Bound with Francis, C.R. Sketches of native life in India. 1848.

Contents:
The examining hall, opium factory at Patna, India -- The mixing room, opium factory at Patna, India -- The balling room, opium factory at Patna, India -- Drying room, opium factory at Patna, India -- The stacking room, opium factory at Patna, India -- The opium fleet, descending the Ganges en route to Calcutta -- (Opium and knife).
Subject Terms:
Opium trade -- India. | Opium trade -- China. | Opium trade -- History. | Narcotics -- India -- History. | Narcotics -- China -- History. | Madden, J. -- Publisher. | Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1851
Contributors:
Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor