Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (5) CHINESE LAW: Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes.
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 20.1 x 27.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower right of center: h. D.; numbered on the stone, lower left of center: 549 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1193 (ii/ii), Tobu III-191 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1456 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 2000
- Honoré Daumier Caricatures III: From the Tobu Collections, Tobu Museum of Art, 5 February 2000 - 14 March 2000, no. 57
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 79
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 121.