ID: 59
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Watercolors on Chinese punishments
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Topic: Judiciary
Description: Album of six watercolors illustrating methods of punishment, dating XIX c., painted by an anonymous artist—very likely a Westerner reworking Chinese images, like Dadley has done on Puquà's pictures (see Mason, Punishements of China). Conserved in the NYPL.
Bibliography
1:Name:
ANONYM Watercolors on Chinese punishment
2:Name:
MASON, George Henry, Pu-qùa (ill.), DADLEY (grav.) The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French
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Essay
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