A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.
- Date:
- [approximately 1800]
- Reference:
- 25229i
- Part of:
- A tea plantation in China
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[Guangzhou] : [approximately 1800]
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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour on paper
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Sowing the tea
Reference
Wellcome Collection 25229i
Notes
One of a series of twelve scenes of tea cultivation
From around 1750 to the late 1830s, Guangzhou was the only port in China open for foreign trade, making it the likely subject and place of production of this print. Tea was the main product of export, transported by river to Guangzhou, where it was packed before being shipped.
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