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The Empress
of China Homeward Bound
Entering Table Bay, 1784
About to anchor in Table Bay - named
for the buttes that overlook it - off Capetown, South Africa,
the Empress of China passes behind the stern of the Grand
Turk, an American ship, of Salem, Massachusetts, which had
come to Cape Town hoping to trade for tea with some homeward
bound East Indiamen.
Not knowing the Empress was loaded
with tea from her successful first voyage to Whampoa, and
hoping to prevent Americans from establishing a China trade
themselves, the captain of the East India Company ship Calcutta
(at left) went against company policy and broke cargo to trade
with the Grand Turk.
20 x 30 in. lithograph - 275 edition (remarques
available)
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