A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.

Date:
3 May 1858
Reference:
33095i
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Manners and customs of the Chinese
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Publication/Creation

London (26, Haymarket) : [Thomas Mclean], 3 May 1858 (London (70 St. Martin's Lane))

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 20.5 x 25.3 cm.

Lettering

Dining out at a mandarin's. Come captain, take first this tit-bit, Afterwards we'll taste the bird's-nests and water-rats. Take it 'tis delicious. Smith del.et lith.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33095i

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