This tinted lithograph depicts the clipper brig ‘Lanrick’, under the command of Thomas B. White, off Singapore. She is sailing right with her fore- and mainsails reefed, a rowing boat in the right foreground and two other brigs off her port bow. A figure in the rowing boat waves to her crew as she crosses its bows. The print is dedicated to her owner Andrew Jardine, one of the founders of Jardine Matheson, a trading conglomerate founded in Canton (now Guangzhou), China in 1832. The ‘Lanrick’ was employed for trading smuggled opium, tea and cotton.