Four watercolor with gum-arabic on Chinese paper, circa 1800. All approx. 14 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (sheet), 23 x 20 in. (frame). Note: These watercolors came to America with James Biddle (1783-1884) who was an officer on a merchant ship that travelled to China in 1807. It is family lore that he purchased these watercolors on that voyage. The Biddle family married into the family of Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), a Philadelphia doctor and signer of the Declaration of Independence. These watercolors descended through the Rush family. Provenance: James Biddle; by descent through the family of Benjamin Rush; S. Merchant & Son, London.,