Period:Unknown Production date:1775 (circa?)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:agriculture
Dimensions:Height: 210 millimetres Width: 260 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese man transferring water from a lake to a rice paddy in the foreground, using a pail which hangs from a weighted pole set on a forked tree-trunk, while other men lean on a pole under a narrow shelter on another walkway, looking across another paddy field behind to right; mountains in the background; plate 15 in a series illustrating Chinese rice cultivation. Etching
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![图片[1]-print BM-1955-0106.5.12-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00860827_001.jpg)
Comments:For June’s series, see 1855,0106.5.1
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:agriculture
Dimensions:Height: 210 millimetres Width: 260 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese man transferring water from a lake to a rice paddy in the foreground, using a pail which hangs from a weighted pole set on a forked tree-trunk, while other men lean on a pole under a narrow shelter on another walkway, looking across another paddy field behind to right; mountains in the background; plate 15 in a series illustrating Chinese rice cultivation. Etching
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Comments:For June’s series, see 1855,0106.5.1
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