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  • Li Chunfeng, the Chinese mathematician, astrologer and cosmologist, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Eight Trigrams' symbol incorporating the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Chinese men and women join British army staff in an evening feast. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.
  • A Chinese man and woman shown with their necks enclosed in stocks known as the 'cangue'. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • A Chinese funeral scene: male and female mourners are shown kneeling beside the body of an old man, who lies on a table. Gouache on rice paper, China, 1800/1900.
  • Steam powered machinery in Po-wu hsin-pien: Part 1: ch'u-chi (textbook on natural sciences)
  • Singapore: two Singaporean men carrying a yoke and smoking pipes. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour.
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.
  • A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • Li T'ieh Kuai walking with the aid of a crutch. Collage of padded silk fabrics with watercolour on paper, 18--?.
  • Three Chinese men buying goods (possibly tobacco?) from two men behind a shop counter. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • A Chinese man preparing to be executed by decapitation: the man is shown being made to kneel on the ground, while the executioner raises his sword. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • A tea plantation in China: female workers trim the harvested leaves, which are brought to them in paniers by a male worker. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • First text page of Po-wu-hsin-pien: Part 1: ch'u-chi (textbook on natural sciences)
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour.
  • A tea plantation in China: tea is shown being weighed, while workers tread down congou tea into chests and a man in Western dress converses with a senior plantation worker. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Two Chinese men and two women smoking from pipes. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers pick the tea leaves and place them in baskets. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.