China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary
A four-part English survey of Chinese dress, trades, and manufactures compiled by Jean Baptiste Breton from drawings in Henri Bertin's Paris cabinet, published by J.J. Stockdale in London in 1812 for readers curious about China. Andrea Freschi's small engravings set one to four figures against bare ground and light hatched sky, showing workers with barrows, spinning wheels, saws, chests, and carrying poles — usable as isolated figure silhouettes, tool and vehicle studies, and costume detail.
