Picture No | 10221939 |
Date | 1842 |
Description | A Chinese Cage 1842 |
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Chinese family looking at a European woman sitting in a cage. Cage like this was brought back to Britain from China. It was claimed to be similar to the one Mrs. Noble, wife of the captain of the ship 'Kite', had been confined in after that ship's wrecking on the coast of China.
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Source | The Illustrated London News, 13 August 1842, page 220 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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