Cotton spinner and mantua maker, Qing Dynasty China
Cotton spinner and mantua maker, Qing Dynasty China. Woman spinning thread on a spinning wheel, and itinerant clothes maker with her tools in a basket. 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
Picture No
12484153
Media ID
46383420
Size
6595px x 4295px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Florilegius Collection





























