Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (17) THE PENAL CODE: The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors.
Date | 1845 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 19.7 x 25.0 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower left of center: h. D.; numbered on the stone, above the signature to the right: 676 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1219 (ii/iii), Tobu III-204 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1469 |
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. 62
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 92
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. 123.