A woman with kyphosis (spinal curvature), walking with the aid of a stick. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.

  • Zhou, Pei Qun, active approximately 1890.
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1890
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571536i
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A woman with kyphosis (spinal curvature), walking with the aid of a stick. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Although the person depicted has naturally shaped feet, the wearing of earrings and the unshaved forehead suggests that it is a woman. Possibly she is intended to be from a class which did not practice footbinding, or to have been spared footbinding on account of her disability

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1890

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1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 25.8 x 34.5 cm

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Lettering pencilled on accompanying folder: Hunchback Extensive lettering in Chinese Bears number pencilled in upper right hand corner: 81

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Wellcome Collection 571536i

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