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The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China
Title
The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.
Published
London : Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles, No. 13, in Cornhil, & Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, [1770?]
Physical Description
24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy in wrappers; stitched.
Notes
The engravings are based upon the influential Yuzhi gengzhi (Imperially commissioned illustrations of agriculture and sericulture).
Plates engraved by John June; after Augustin Heckel.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
Title page is engraved.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
1. Engraved title page
2. The method of soaking the rice to make it ponderous, that it may sink to the bottom of the water when sowed
3. Plowing the ground on which the rice is to be sowed
4. Harrowing the ground
5. Raking the ground after the first time of harrowing
6. Laying the ground smooth and even for the rice, by a second harrowing
7. Two Chinese sowing the rice in water
8. The Chinese farmer viewing the rice plants when grown up
9. Putting fresh water on the young plants
10. Taking up the young plants in order to set them in fresh ground
11. Planting out the young rice in a regular order
12. Examining if the plants have taken root and fastning them in the ground
13. Weeding the rice. The master overlooking the workmen
14. The farmer's wife and daughter carrying provisions to the men
15. Poring fresh water on the plants
16. Reaping
17. Laying the sheaves up in ricks
18. Threshing the rice
19. Breaking the husks
20. Sifting the rice
21. Winnowing the rice
22. Grinding the rice
23. Laying the rice up in the store houses
24. The Chinese Thanksgiving for a good harvest.
References
Sayer & Bennett's catalogue of prints for 1775, p. 94-95
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