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Seeds of Exchange: Canton and London in the 1700s
11 February 2026 to 10 May 2026
First UK display of 30 Chinese botanical paintings by Mak Sau, reunited with John Bradby Blake's 1770s Canton archive and a Reynolds portrait of his collaborator Whang At Tong.
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Discover the relationship between John Bradby Blake (1745-1773), an English botanist who worked as a supercargo for the East India Company in the 1770s, his Chinese interlocutor Whang At Tong 黃遏東, and Mak Sau 麥秀, the botanical artist Bradby Blake commissioned to document plants native to Canton. The exhibition will explore the exchange of botanical knowledge shared between Canton (now Guangzhou) and London between 1766-1773,...
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