A Whiff of the Opium Pipe at Home; After Dinner; Reading for Honours; The Toilet

1868

Arranged in four vignettes, this collotype offers a rare intimate view of domestic Chinese life, including controversial documentation of opium use during the post-Opium War period.

Medium: Collotype, pl. X from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)

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