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Artist
- Name:
- Allom, Thomas
- Dates:
- 1804-1872
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Lightfoot, Peter
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- University of California Libraries, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- China: in a series of views, displaying the scenery..., vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Wright, George Newenham
- Publisher:
- London, Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d. [1843?]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A doctor and his assistants have put up a stall on a village square and while two of them can be seen performing a street show of sorts involving live snakes, the third one goes around the audience to sell medicines.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Asia, black & white, China, China: in a series of..., performance, reference book, snake, Victorian
