18-19世纪广州是中外交流最重要的口岸城市,许多西方画家在此活动并以其为活动中心。来粤的欧洲画家记录中国的图画作品成为当时中国风土人情的真实记录,尽管这些图像多为场景的单纯展现,但文字记载与图像刻画相互对应,从而弥补了历史文献的有限性空白。 From the 18th to the 19th centuries, Guangzhou was the most important port city for the exchange between China and foreign countries. Many Western artists took this event as its center of activity. The European painters from Guangdong and China recorded the Chinese paintings as real records of Chinese customs and practices at that time. Although these images were mostly simple scenes, the records of the writings corresponded with the portrayal of the images, thus making up for the limited gap in the historical documents.