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A Chinese court official with a whip leads a prisoner wearing the cangue or tcha. The Chinese punished criminals and debtors with this heavy wooden yoke around the neck. Supplice de la Cangue en Chine. Copied from an illustration by William Alexander artist to the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervaiss Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811.

A Chinese court official with a whip leads a prisoner wearing the cangue or tcha. The Chinese punished criminals and debtors with this heavy wooden yoke around the neck. Supplice de la Cangue en Chine. Copied from an illustration by William Alexander artist to the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervaiss Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811.
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Caption: A Chinese court official with a whip leads a prisoner wearing the cangue or tcha. The Chinese punished criminals and debtors with this heavy wooden yoke around the neck. Supplice de la Cangue en Chine. Copied from an illustration by William Alexander artist to the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervaiss Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811.
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Image size: 5925 × 8691 px | 147.3 MB
Print size: 50.2 × 73.6 cm | 2332.7 × 3421.7 in (300 dpi)
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