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sation to the Released British Prisoners and to the Families of those who were Murdered."36
The 16 February issue had a full page illustration, "Curiosity-Street, Pekin."37 The brief accompanying narrative explains that "Curiosity Street" was where "the British officers got rid of much of their superfluous cash in the purchase of doubtful antiquities and modern enamels. ... The street is densely crowded. Carts, horses, ponies, and wheelbarrows obstruct one's movements at every step, and the confusion is increased by the number of British officers, most of them in Chinese fur coats. Boys, sharp as those of London or Paris, are always at hand ready to carry any possible amount of one's purchases to any distance."38
Genre subjects such as this also appeared in following issues. "Sketches of a Peking Cab,”39 “Amusements on the Ice,"40 “Teahouse in Peking"41 and an illustration of "what I had to sketch throught"42 ("A Group of Chinese" who crowded round the artist, impeding his work).43
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More formal general subjects also continued to appear: "The Russian Mission Church in Pekin,”44 “the Chinese General Prince San-Ko-Lin-Sin,"45 "a Portion of the Emperor of China's Summer Palace Near Pekin,"46 “Part of the Imperial Palace, Pekin,”47 and “View of the Gardens and the Buddhist Temple in the Imperial City, Pekin”.48
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Even the potentially hostile subject of "Chinese guns" is presented in a way that includes a complimentary bow to the Chinese, demonstrating that they had mastered a particular technology earlier than European ordnance-makers. The Illustrated London News published a letter from a Royal Navy surgeon, who wrote, “There has been a great noise made of late years through what has been looked upon by scientific men as a new and grand discovery in the manufacture of iron ordnance... Judge, then, my astonishment when, as I was walking through the Taku Forts, at the entrance to the Peiho, I came upon a lot of cast-off Chinese guns evidently very old, but made almost upon these principles and rejected about the end of the seventeenth century, when the famous Ferdinand Verbrist [sic for Verbiest] taught them to manufacture cast guns of brass and iron.50
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sation to the Released British Prisoners and to the Families of those who were Murdered." 36
The 16 February issue had a full page illustration, "Curiosity-Street, Pekin."
" 37 The brief accompanying narrative explains that "Curiosity Street" was where "the British officers got rid of much of their super- fluous cash in the purchase of doubtful antiquities and modern enamels. ... The street is densely crowded. Carts, horses, ponies, and wheelbar- rows obstruct one's movements at every step, and the confusion is increased by the number of British officers, most of them in Chi- nese fur coats. Boys, sharp as those of London or Paris, are always at hand ready to carry any possible amount of one's purchases to any distance." 38
Genre subjects such as this also appeared in following issues. "Sketches of a Peking Cab,” 39 “Amusements on the Ice," 40 “Teahouse in Peking" 4 and an illustration of "what I had to sketch throught" 42 ("A Group of Chinese" who crowded round the artist, impeding his work). 43
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More formal general subjects also continued to appear: "The Rus- sian Mission Church in Pekin,” 44 “the Chinese General Prince San-Ko- Lin-Sin," 45"a Portion of the Emperor of China's Summer Palace Near Pekin,'
,” 46 “Part of the Imperial Palace, Pekin,” “7 and “View of the Gardens and the Buddhist Temple in the Imperial City, Pekin”. 48.
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Even the potentially hostile subject of "Chinese guns" is pre- sented in a way that includes a complimentary bow to the Chinese, demonstrating that they had mastered a particular technology earlier than European ordnance-makers. The Illustrated London News pub- lished a letter from a Royal Navy surgeon, who wrote, “There has been a great noise made of late years through what has been looked upon by scientific men as a new and grand discovery in the manufacture of iron ordnance... Judge, then, my astonishment when, as I was walking through the Taku Forts, at the entrance to the Peiho, I came upon a lot of cast-off Chinese guns evidently very old, but made almost upon these principles and rejected about the end of the seventeenth century, when the famous Ferdinand Verbrist [sic for Verbiest] taught them to manu- facture cast guns of brass and iron.
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