Chinese children collecting horse manure, 18th century

Chinese children collecting horse manure, 18th century. They pick up dung from the road with small shovels and load it into straw baskets on their back. Enfans Chinois qui ramassent de l'engrais. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by 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

 china 1822 18th Century Fertilizer French -  geographer J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries La Chine Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Chinese Moeurs Et Usages Des Chinois Shovel Translator William Alexander

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