Sujet

Sketches in China - a Thief whipped through the Streets of Canton, 1858. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches in China - a Thief whipped through the Streets of Canton, 1858. Engraving of a sketch '...received by the last Overland Mail from our Special Artist and Correspondent in China, who, in a letter dated Canton, Oct. 28, writes: "A man with a gong goes in front, and is followed by the thief, with his [pig]tail cut off, his back bared, receiving chastisement from a rattan cane".' From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A82_346

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,3Mo (2,3Mo) / 32,7cm x 20,9cm / 3860 x 2473 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal people male man men music sound arts country body bodies spectators law China art Chinese guy pig crime spectator British feet foot color gong hitting location century musical instrument musical instruments Britain criminal newspapers press barefoot print beating concept punishment whip thief thieves swine hog B&W canton street scene tied up humiliating humiliation bare feet punishing engraved engraving whipping Colour humiliated 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black Guangzhou nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News prig TGN the body ILN street newspaper Unknown 19th-century