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Subject Headgear Name Saunders, W.

1. Photo 1224/3(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(56)
Title:
Magistrate's Court. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
Studio re-enactment of a Chinese trial scene. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No.30.- A Court Scene. The presiding magistrate occupies the bench, and on either side are his clerks. The prosecutor, who, in this instance, holds some small official preferment, is seated to the right ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1224/3(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(58)
Title:
An Execution. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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