With an additional page with Explanations in English and French on verso. London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1801.
Folio (13-3/4” x 10”)
Plate Number I out of 22 engravings sold in book form.
Title: “A Culprit Before a Magistrate”
As trade with China increased, Chinese culture began to take hold of the British imagination. This was particularly true in cases where Chinese people and practices could be stereotyped or depicted as barbaric. Written by an East India Company soldier who traveled to Canton in 1789, Punishments of China depicts lurid scenes of torture and contrasts Chinese and Western customs. Export albums like were produced in the port cities of China for tourists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth Century.
Condition: Very Good. Presents with light foxing and wear commensurate with age and use.
The colors are vivid and bright. Lower margin presents with pinpoint holes where plate was held by binding.
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