No. 1 Antique Print of Chinese Street Punishments by Allom (1859)

Description: Antique print titled 'No.1 Street Punishments'. Print of Chinese street punishments. Shows a prisoner, his arms bound and flags attached to his ears, walking to the left down a street between a man with a drum and another man with a handful of rods with which he beats him. A fourth man with his hands tucked into his sleeves brings up the rear. This print originates from 'The Chinese Empire: historical and descriptive. Illustrating the manners and customs of the Chinese,in a series of steel engravings, from original sketches' by T. Allom

Artists and Engravers: Thomas Allom (1804–1872) was an English architect, artist, and illustrator, who published books on his travels from Europe to the Middle East and throughout Asia.