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Caption: Itinerant seller of paper lanterns, China, 18th century. He holds lanterns painted with Chinese characters and a large straw basket of stock on his back. Vendor of lanterns. Marchand des lanternes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Chine: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois, China: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Chinese, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1822. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 4822 × 7106 px | 98.0 MB
Print size: 40.8 × 60.2 cm | 1898.4 × 2797.6 in (300 dpi)