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 39
, PERFORMING TRICKS WITH JARS. This engraving exhibits a posture-master balancing twolarge China vases, and throwing himself into most ex-traordinary attitudes; he exhibited a variety of curiouspostures before the Ambassador, at his lodgings oppositeto Canton, and played with the large jars… … s i PLATE VIII. CHILDREN COLLECTING MANURE. The collecting and preparing of manure of various de-scriptions, and making it up into cakes for sale, occupy avery considerable population of the 1 owest class of society,and for the most part is the employm ent of the aged andchildren. No…
Clothing and dress
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