The Tea Plant; The Tea Plant; Yenping Rapids; A Small Rapid Boat

1868

Combining botanical studies with landscape photography, these images document both the source of China's most famous export and the challenging river navigation required for inland trade.

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

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