print
- Museum number
- 1955,0106.5.15
- Title
- Object: Breaking the Husks
- Description
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Chinese men working in the yard of a house, one using a treadmill pestle to crush rice in a small pit, another standing over a tub full of rice, raising a grinding staff, while a boy who stands beside the tub looks across at two men who approach carrying another tub between them; a river and mountains in the background to right; plate 19 in a series illustrating Chinese rice cultivation.
Etching
- Production date
- 1775 (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1855,0106.5.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1955,0106.5.15
