A Chinese prisoner who has tried to escape is lying on the ground while a man wearing a red jacket is cutting his ankles with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Date:
1 Jany. 1801
Reference:
579706i
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London (Old Bond Street) : W. Miller, 1 Jany. 1801.

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1 print : stipple, with watercolour ; image 11.5 x 16.2 cm

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Engraved by Dadley

Reference

Wellcome Collection 579706i

Reproduction note

After one painting in a series of paintings, presumably by a Chinese painter, collected by George Henry Mason (1770-1851) in Canton ca. 1789

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