Kircher was ordained a Jesuit in 1628 in Mainz, Germany, but fled his homeland and settled in Rome in 1634 to escape the Thirty Years War. He remained in Rome most of his life researching a wide variety of disciplines, from geography and astronomy to…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1851; on mount in ink: Chinese artificers; through image in ink: planing, chipping, chipping, sawing, sawing, driving home a nail, boring a hole, marking a straight line, sawing a small piece of wood, sawing a large block of…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1851; on mount in ink: Chinese stonecutters; through image in ink: Chinese stonecutters Kay Tribe. Plate I. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1851; on mount in ink: Chinese stonecutters; through image in ink: Chinese stonecutters Kay Tribe. Plate II 2. 1 2 Chinese stone breakers. Kay Tribe 3 4 5 Tool menders of Kay Tribe 6 7 8 Tool menders of the Aya Tribe 9
This detail shows "two of the vessels made use of by the Chinese. The first of these marked (A), is a junk of about a hundred and twenty tons burthen, and was what the Centurion hove down by; these are most in the great rivers, though they sometimes…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1851; on mount in ink: Chinese workmen; through image in ink: Carpenters, beating our a piece of iron, carving a small piece of wood, Chinese coolies
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Christmas 1969; verso: To Colin, Anne and Family. Love and greetings from Doris. I look forward to seeing you all in January