Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)
Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 131
ally the work of their ownhands, a great part of their time being employed in thisway. If it was not a rigid custom of the country, to con-fine to their apartments the better class of females, theunnatural cramping of their feet, while infants, is quitesufficient to prevent them from stirring much… … A — PJLA! . Idi-r.iu. . tn-<m.trlt. itrrtt. PLATE XXXI. A SEDAN BEARER. Whenever the Emperor of China goes in state to transactpublic business, to receive ambassadors, or to hold a court,he is carried in the same kind of a sedan chair as are com-monly used in Europe, and which, as well as…
Clothing and dress
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