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ID: 710
Ressource_Provider: Unknown
Title: Fed in a barrel
DocumentNature: Photolithograph
Repository: Turandot
Color: Black and white
Caption: Condamné à la cangue nourri par sa femme. Dessin de Gilbert d'après une planche chinoise
Topic: Benches, beds and barrels
Description: A western copy of a common scene in Chinese export watercolors (as the caption makes clear: "a drawing by Gilbert, after a Chinese plate": a prisoner is trapped in a barrel, his hands held like by a cangue, and his wife comes to feed him. Though common as a pictorial topic, the use of barrels as cangues is not attested by other resources

Bibliography
  1:Name: POUSSIÈLGUE, Achille Le Tour du Monde

Derniére modification le : 2007-12-19