3. Battle scene

2a. A Chinese woman slashing her chest (watercolour)

4. George Morrison, 1900 / sketch by F. Whiting

George Ernest Morrison collection, 1738-1935

1. Morrison with two Chinese children (pencil). Taken from a photograph

2a. Chinese woman slashing her chest (watercolour). Inscribed: 'Dr Assmy[?] German Govt. Hospital, Chung king'
2b. Chinese woman being tended by doctor (watercolour)

3. [A raid on a temple] (watercolour). 
On 16 June 1900 Morrison led a raid on a temple during which over 100 Chinese Christians were rescued from hands of the Boxers. Morrison later commissioned the folk painter Chou Pei-chum to paint this action. It is inscribed in Chinese: 'This is the picture that Englishman Dr. Morrison led the force to attack the Boxers in Shuaifu Yuan and killed fifty or sixty of them. Twenty-fourth of May, the twenty-sixth year of Emperor Kuang Hsu.' 
(Source: Old China Through G.E. Morrison's Eyes: Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi, 2005) 

4. [Portrait of Morrison] / F. Whiting, Pekin [19]00 (pencil). At this time Frederic Whiting was Special Artist-Correspondent for the Daily Graphic.

5. [Portrait of Morrison reading] (watercolour)

6. [Bearded man / W.D.S.] (pencil)

7. [Squatting figure under hat / W.D.S.] (pencil)

8. [Young man] / W.D.S. (pencil)

9. [Young boy] / W.D.S. (pencil)

10. Port Victoria [possibly Lyttleton, New Zealand, formerly called Port of Victoria] / Ed Norman (ink)

11. [Cartoon face - smiling Chinese] (ink)

12. [Cartoon face - smiling Chinese and cartoon figure, holding bag labelled 'Subscribe Capital' ] (ink)

13. [Cartoon figure holding bag labelled 'Subscribe Capital'] (ink)

3. Battle scene

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