China and Its People

19th centurycollotypephotomechanical process

Date

1873

Medium

Collotypes (96 plates; 218 photographs in all four volumes) and text, volume one of four

Dimensions

Page: 47 × 35 cm (18 9/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Covers: 48 × 36 × 2.3 cm (18 15/16 × 14 3/16 × 15/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Purchased with funds provided by Mr. George R. Rinhart, and Charles C. Cunningham, Samuel P. Avery Endowment

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