A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

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1 Jany. 1801
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579684i
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view A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

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A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (Old Bond Street) : W. Miller, 1 Jany. 1801.

Physical description

1 print : stipple, with watercolour ; image 19.6 x 31 cm

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Engraved by Dadley Bears number: 3

Reference

Wellcome Collection 579684i

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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