Album chinois : ce petit album est destiné à faire connaître les véritables costumes des habitants du Céleste Empire ... : on a réuni aussi les portraits des missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus ..
A small photographic album assembled in France around 1860 to show the dress of people in China alongside portraits of Jesuit missionaries serving there, made for European readers and mission supporters. Sepia albumen prints, tipped onto pale card with ruled edges and handwritten name labels, show robed figures, group poses outdoors, studio half-lengths and copied paintings of interiors.
