Punishment of a false interpreter, Qing Dynasty. The executioners tread on a bamboo pole across the kneeling man's legs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

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Caption: Punishment of a false interpreter, Qing Dynasty. The executioners tread on a bamboo pole across the kneeling man's legs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

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Image size: 4436 × 7500 px | 95.2 MB

Print size: 37.6 × 63.5 cm | 1746.5 × 2952.8 in (300 dpi)

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