Historical views of China. Young boy given his first cap 28, bridge decorated with lanterns during the Feast of Lanterns 29, and peasants playing Jianzi with a shuttlecock in a village 30. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor’s Scenes in Asia, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1819.

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