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The Embassadors Entry Through the Famous Chinese Wall : near 1200 miles in length [detail].

"The Wall is full six Fathom high, and four thick, so that six Horsemen may easily ride a-breast on it, and was in as good Repair as if it had not been erected above twenty or thirty Years since; no Part of it being fallen, nor annoyed by the least…

Tags: Eighteenth century, Great Wall of China (China), Illustrations, Image, Landscape, Prints, Still Image

Chinese Vessels.

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…

Tags: China, Eighteenth century, Illustrations, Image, Junks, Prints, Still Image, Voyages around the world

Modus Scribendi.

"The Society of Jesus was founded in 1539 by St Ignatius of Loyola. From their base at Goa, India, the Jesuits ventured forth to Japan and China: their goal to spread Christianity and promote the work of the Society. Over the years, their written…

Tags: Calligraphy, China, Chinese, Description and travel, Illustrations, Image, Prints, Seventeenth century, Still Image

Map of Laputa and Luggnag.

The Magistrates of the Town hearing of my Letter, received me as a Publick Minister, they provided me with Carriages and Servants, and bore my Charges to Yedo [Tokyo], where I was admitted to an Audience, and delivered my Letter, which was opened…

Tags: Illustrations, Image, Imaginary places, Japan, Maps, Prints, Still Image, Voyages and travels

A view of Fusy-yama : from a Japanese drawing.

"Towering over all in the western distance, but too often concealed by clouds, the majestic Fusi-yama reared its conical summit" (Oliphant, 1859, v. II, p. 97).

Tags: Description and travel, Illustrations, Image, Japan, Landscape, Lithographs, Mount Fuji (Japan), Nineteenth century, Planographic prints, Prints, Still Image

Signing of the Treaty of Teintsin.

Lawless proceedings in the Canton river, the city of Peking, joss-houses, the Roman Catholic mission, military promenades at Shanghai, the Yangtze, Chinese prostitutes, first views of Deshima and Nagasaki (Japan), the persecution of Christians,…

Tags: China, Description and travel, Elgin, Foreign intervention, Frontispieces, Illustrations, Image, Lithographs, Nineteenth century, Prints, Still Image, Treaties

Cormorants Fishing

"The Chinese fishermen take out with them in the morning ten or twelve of these birds, still fasting, either in light boats, or on bamboo rafts. They make them dive one or two at a time: the cormorant seldom comes up without having taken a fish, and…

Tags: China, Cormorants, Description and travel, Illustrations, Image, Nineteenth century, Prints, Social life and customs, Still Image, Traditional Fishing

Tokohou : [the story of Prince Tokugawa the fifteenth].

In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial…

Tags: Battles, Illustrations, Image, Japan, Japanese, Nineteenth century, Prints, Shoguns, Still Image

Settling debts at a merchants house.

A typical scene at a merchant's house during the year-end when all outstanding bills must be settled. One clerk works the abacus, another weighs the silver and a third makes entries in the ledger. Three tradesmen have arrived to present their final…

Tags: Edo period, Illustrations, Image, Japan, Japanese fiction, Merchants, Prints, Still Image

The Silk Cord Makers.

"The figures represented ... are engaged in manufacturing silk-twist by a very different mode to that adopted by Europeans. Their machinery is not horizontal, but vertical. The threads are extended round a truncated cone. The females who twist…

Tags: China, Costume, Illustrations, Image, Nineteenth century, Prints, Social life and customs, Still Image, Women silk industry workers

The Shogun's audience.

A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…

Tags: Illustrations, Image, Interior Architecture, Japan, Palaces, Prints, Seventeenth century, Still Image

Camps and trails in China [front cover].

Roy Andrews (1884-1960) was an explorer, and long-time curator and director of the American Museum of Natural History. His Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-17 was written up in his "Camps and Trails in China". The pagoda on the cover is found at…

Tags: Architecture, Book covers, Brick houses, Bridges, Causeways, China, Chinese, Covers (Illustration), Description and travel, Draw Bridges, Illustrations, Image, Still Image, Twentieth century, Zoology

Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China [front cover].

In 1844, Evariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), a French Lazarist missionary, was ordered to explore the area surrounding the mission at Si-Wang (Hsi-wan-tse), about 200 kilometres to the northwest of Peking (Beijing). He and his companion, Joseph Gabet,…

Tags: Asia, Book covers, Central, China, Covers (Illustration), Description and travel, Illustrations, Image, Nineteenth century, Still Image

Cover of the House & Garden capping magazine, 1987.

The OUSA capping magazine cover from 1987. The magazine is entitled "House & Garden" in jest and the cover depicts a burnt-out student flat.

Tags: Covers (Illustration), Dunedin (N.Z.), Illustrations, Image, Magazine covers, Nineteen eighties, Prints, Satire, Still Image, Student newspapers and periodicals, timeline, University of Otago, Wit and humor

Queen Mary Maternity Hospital, medical school students.

Two photographs from a photo series on the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital. Upper: Two students in their accommodation playing a board game. Lower: A male student removing the nappy of a newborn baby. The captions read: "The students’ living room,…

Tags: Dunedin (N.Z.), Hospitals, Illustrations, Image, Medical education, Nineteen thirties, Prints, Still Image, students, timeline, University of Otago

Professor William Percy Gowland, Medical School.

William Percy Gowland (1879-1965) was the Professor of Anatomy at the Otago Medical School between 1914 and 1943. He went on to become the Director of Medical Services at Wellington Hospital from 1944 to 1949.

Tags: Anatomy, Illustrations, Image, Medical education, Nineteen forties, Prints, Staff, Still Image, timeline, University of Otago

Eye of the Needle caricature.

A caricature showing the various obstacles that face medical students during their metaphorical climb up the 'mountain of life'. After encountering exams, financial difficulties and illness, they reach their ultimate goal - a degree as depicted by a…

Tags: Academic Degrees, Caricatures and cartoons, Cartoons (Commentary), Illustrations, Image, Medical education, Prints, Still Image, students, timeline, University of Otago, Wit and humor

Through China with a Camera [front cover].

"Cixi huang hou yu bi zhi bao" are the words of the seal of the Empress Dowager Tsze Hsi. This seal was used to confirm authorship of documents written by her.
'My design is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall…

Tags: Book covers, China, Covers (Illustration), Description and travel, Illustrations, Image, Nineteenth century, Still Image

Peking Observatory.

"The instrument ... is of huge dimensions, cast in solid bronze, and is of the most beautiful workmanship. The stand of this piece of mechanism has a mythological significance, and its design is of remarkable artistic excellence. Four of the…

Tags: Astronomy, Beijing (China), Dragons, Illustrations, Image, Photographs, Still Image

Chao-Chow-Fu Bridge.

"Chao-chow-fu is a walled city of considerable size and great commercial importance, as one may gather form its extensive warehouses, the busy traffic of its streets, the number of mature craft that throng the river on which it stands. The bridge…

Tags: China, Illustrations, Image, Nineteenth century, Photographs, Still Image