Copyright: Turandot

ID: 334
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Deportation: departure
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: Turandot
Color: Color
Topic: Deportations 徒流軍遣
Description: CONDUCTING AN OFFENDER INTO BANISHMENT.
A person, sentences to transportation, is thus led, by an officer of justice, into the country appointed for his future residence. He carries a mat to serve him as a bed, and a leaf of a palm tree, to protect him from the weather. Upon his back, his crime, his sentence, and his name, are displayed in conspicuous characters.
This punishment is inflicted upon those, who have struck an elder brother; who have incurred debts by gaming, which they are unable to pay; and for such other offences as appear to render to perpetrator unworthy to continue in his native country.
When offenders are thus conducted into some distant province, they are to be recalled, but, if into Tartary, their banishment is perpetual.
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MALFAITEUR CONDUIT AU LIEU DE SON BANNISSEMENT.
Celui, qui est condamné à la déportation, est conduit, par un officier de justice, au lieu de sa nouvelle résidence. Il porte une natte, pour lui servir de lit, et un feuille de palmier, pour le mettre à l'abri du temps.
Sur son dos sont écrits, en gros caractères, son crime, sa sentence, et son nom.
On bannit ceux, qui ont frappé un frère aine; qui ont contracté, au jeu, des dettes qu'ils sont hors d'état de payer; et pour tous les crimes, qui paroissent rendre le coupable indigne de vivre dans le lieu de sa naissance.
Lorsque les criminels ne sont conduits que dans quelques provinces éloignées, on les rapelle; mais en Tartarie leur bannissement est perpétuel.
Keyword: deportation

Bibliography
  1:Name: MASON, George Henry, Pu-qùa (ill.), DADLEY (grav.) The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French

Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
    Title: Deportation: departure
    Information: Some versions of a common theme: the departure for penal servitude (tu 徒) or one of the various forms of relegations (liu 流, chongjun 充軍, qian 遣). Models focus on the duet formed by the convict with the guard in charge of escorting him to his place of relegation: the guard wears a typical hat, and various tools on his shoulder (umbrella, stick), the convict is chained, brings a mat, and his bush-like hair shows that he does not belong to the civilised world of pig-tailed commoners anymore. Another model focus on the heart-breaking farewell by wife and parents at the moment of departure.

Related VisualSet (1)

1  Title: The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French
    DocumentNature: Engraving

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