Wall with tree and figures in foreground inscribed 'The Lookout Dutch Folly Canton 1858'

This image shows the lookout of Dutch Folly Fort in Canton in 1858. The Folly Fort was an oval fort built on a sand bar in the Canton River. It lay about 800 metres to the east of the foreign factories. The fort was occupied by the British and French at the time.

Object Details

ID: PAG3585
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Edgell, Harry Edmund
Places: Canton
Date made: 1858
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 206 x 298 mm
Parts: H. Edgell Album. Sketches in the Black Sea, Pacific - China - India, 1855-60. HMS Tribune HMS Chesapeake HMS Retribution. Volume 2 (Album)