The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Published with a subvention from the Dutch colonial government
A six-volume ethnographic study of Chinese religion, burial and demonology by Dutch sinologist J. J. M. de Groot, published by Brill in Leyden from 1892 with Dutch colonial government funding for European scholars. The plates are plain outline drawings of the four directional animals and related creatures, hand-labelled in pencil, useful as clean single-weight line motifs for scaling or filling.
