A Chinese woman about to be beaten with a wooden rod as a judicial punishment. Coloured aquatint by W. Alexander, 1804.

Date:
1st Jany. 1804
Reference:
579743i
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A Chinese woman about to be beaten with a wooden rod as a judicial punishment. Coloured aquatint by W. Alexander, 1804. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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She is kneeling before a man in lavish costume standing behind a table (the judge?) on which another man is writing (the clerk?)

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London (Old Bond Street) : W. Miller, 1st Jany. 1804.

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 20.4 x 27.3 cm

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W. Alexander fecit.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 579743i

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