Punishment of a false interpreter, Qing Dynasty. The executioners tread on a bamboo pole across the kneeling man's legs. 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.

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