Chinese Collection (page 16)

Street in the Chinese Quarter, Hong Kong, 1870

Well-to-do Chinese home, Canton, China c. 1890 s
Interior of a well-to-do Chinese home, Canton, China c.1890 s

Chinese temple, Singapore, c. 1880 s
Chinese temple, Singapore, c.1880 s

c. 1900s China passenger ship, probably Shanghai
c.1900s China passenger ship, probably Shanghai

Chu Chin Chow by George Grossmith and Edward Laurillard, touring to the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, the Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton production from His Majestys Theatre, London. Kissing Time. Date: 1910s

Aladdin pantomime, Ye Olde Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, from 24 December 1902, twice nightly, including 100 local children, comic harlequinade. Blue and white Chinese plate design. Date: 1902

Selangor Chinese chamber of commerce, Malaysia. This chamber, founded in 1902, is one of the very few institutions of the kind in the world, being composed entirely of Chinese people

San Toy, musical comedy, first performed at Dalys Theatre, London, in 1899. Date: circa 1900s

Shanghai, a spectacular musical play, Drury Lane Theatre, London, presented by Macdonald and Young Date: early 20th century

Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911

c. 1900s China - Peking Beijing - imperial court in processio
c.1900s China - Peking Beijing - imperial court in procession

c. 1900s China - Peking Beijing - railway station city walls
c.1900s China - Peking Beijing - train leaves the railway station outside the city walls

c. 1900s China - Peking Beijing - view from Hatamen north
c.1900s China - Peking Beijing - view from Hatamen north

c. 1900 China Peking Beijing - Hatamen Gate
c.1900 China Peking Beijing - Hatamen Gate

c. 1900 China Peking Beijing - view from wall Legation Quarte
c.1900 China Peking Beijing - view from the wall of the Legation Quarter, with camel train in the foreground

Photogravure, Donald Mennie, The Grandeur of the Gorges
Photogravure from a photograph by Donald Mennie, from his book The Grandeur of the Gorges, published in China in 1926. He took the pictures during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China

Chinese woman with bound feeet, China, 19th century

Facade row of shops in Chinese Quarter, Shanghai, China
Vintage 19th century photograph: Facade of row of shops in the Chinese Quarter, Shanghai, China

Group of Chinese men outdoors playing board games
Vintage 19th century photograph: Group of Chinese men outdoors playing board games

Chinese fishewrmen with their nets, China
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chinese fishewrmen with their nets, China

View along Bund in Shanghai, China, on Huangpu River
19th century vintage photograph: View along the Bund in Shanghai, China, showing Huangpu River

Group of young Chinese women with bound feet
19th century vintage photograph: Group of young Chinese women with bound feet

Fourth Yard Forbidden City, Imperial Palace, Peking Bejiing
19th century vintage photograph: Fourth Yard in the Forbidden City, Imperial Palace, Peking Bejiing

The Peking Beijing city walls, China c. 1900
The Peking Beijing city walls, China c.1900

Making a vessel of smoke for a dead Empress: burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Cixi of China across the river separating it from the heavenly Nirvana

Built to be burnt: a u7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for a
Built to be burnt: a 7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for an Empresss spiritual use. A rite performed in Peking (now Beijing)

Woman in front of the Chinese Baths, Paris, 1849
Woman in front of the Chinese Baths on the Boulevard des Capucines, 1849. Woman in full crinoline, shawl and bonnet. Les bains chinois were built in 1787 by Samson-Nicolas Lenoir

A stand at the Champ de Mars races, 1848
Woman watching the horse race at Champ de Mars racetrack. She wears a bonnet and blue redingote over a crinoline dress. Men in top hat and tails. A stand at the Champ de Mars races, 1848

Map of Asia, early 19th century. Showing Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, Siberia, Tartary, Thibet, Hindoostan, Further India, China, Formosa, Japan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Canary broom, Genista canariensis (Cytisus canariensis). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London

Hibiscus roseus. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Chinese pink, Dianthus chinensis (Dianthus sinensis). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Chinese tea farmers treading tea leaves in baskets
Chinese tea farmers treading tea leaves, Camellia sinensis, in baskets to ferment the tea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1821

Chinese tea farmers using monkeys to gather tea leaves, Camellia sinensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1821

Follaton House, seat of Stanley Carey, Totnes Devon. Built by the architect George Stanley Repton in 1826. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1827

Chinese primrose, Primulidium sinense (Primula sinensis, Primavera della China). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Mahuwa tree, Madhuca longifolia. (Bassia longifolia, Bassia di lunghe foglie.) Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Species of mole crabs or sand crabs. Hippa adactyla 1, Emerita emeritus 2, Albunea symmysta 3. Remipede testuggine, Ippa emerito, Albunea sinnista

Bluespotted cornetfish and Chinese trumpetfish
Bluespotted cornetfish, Fistularia tabacaria 1, and Chinese trumpetfish, Aulostomus chinensis 2. Fistularia petimba, Aulostomo chinese

Striped threadfin and bluefish
Striped threadfin, Polydactylus plebeius, and bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix. Polinemo plebeo, Cheilodittero ettacanto. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia
Chinese elm or lacebark elm, Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmus chinensis, Olmo della China. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Amargo, Quassia amara
Amargo, bitter-ash, bitter-wood or hombre grande, Quassia amara. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Chinese-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilt pelmet, damask valance, satin curtains with gold and silver decoration, embroidered silk wall decorations. Planche 3. Croisee Genre Chinois

Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
Canons of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Canonici del S. Sepolcro. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Carocci after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Four Chinese merchants playing the game of odd or even (Tui-Tsu) in summer clothes, China, 19th century. A man uses a stick to move the cash bets on the table

Pile game, cock and hen. Bred by Joseph Colgrove. Cockerel first prize at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1886. Hen first prize at the Dairy Show 1885

White leghorns or Livorno cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. From birds sent over specially for portraiture by Mr. Simpson, Treasurer of the New York State Poultry Society

Buff cochin cock, Gallus gallus domesticus. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W. Ludlow from Lewis Wrights The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890

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