Official with a sword, by Sunqua

An image of Album: Manchu Officials. Official with a sword. Sunqua, attributed (Chinese, ac.1830-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper. Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 365 mm, width 256 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Album: Manchu Officials. Official with a sword. Sunqua, attributed (Chinese, ac.1830-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper. Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 365 mm, width 256 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Accession Number: 4166(1)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 736 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 505.43kB
Exposure time: 1/18
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:15 10:46:39

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19th Century album bodycolour cape Chinese cloak clothes clothing costume dress fashion Fitz_PDP Manchu Manchurian official paper pith paper plants seated silk sitting Sunqua swords watercolour

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