Watercolour illustrations of Chinese punishments

Separately mounted, watercolour illustrations on Chinese paper. Each illustration depicts a different punishment or method of torture, including executions by strangulation and beheading. Painted in Canton. Undated [note: painting of decapitated head in bamboo basket includes Chinese inscription wit...

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Archive & Special Collections CWML MSS/505 Open

Order number: CWML MSS 505
Date(s) of creation: [19th century]
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

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item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWML MSS 505
callnumber CWML MSS/505
callnumber_txt CWML MSS/505
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prefix_number 505
title Watercolour illustrations of Chinese punishments
scb_date_creation [19th century]
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 19 colour plates
format Archive
description Separately mounted, watercolour illustrations on Chinese paper. Each illustration depicts a different punishment or method of torture, including executions by strangulation and beheading. Painted in Canton. Undated [note: painting of decapitated head in bamboo basket includes Chinese inscription within the illustration giving the Chinese date of 7th year of the Qianqing period (Qing dynasty) - 1802].
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_related_material Similar sets of illustrations are held by the British Library.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWML MSS
hierarchy_sequence CWML_MSS.00505

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