第一百七十五篇第一百七十五篇Story One Hundred and Seventy-Five

Tap Both to see the Chinese beside it

LeftTop

RightBottom

木雕美人

木雕美人

Story One Hundred and Seventy-Five · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Wooden Beauty

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on the open ground beside a river landing in daytime, a lean travelling showman at the left raises an arm and calls on two big dogs, each carrying a small carved wooden figure, a richly dressed beauty looking back and a boy in a sheepskin coat and pheasant plumes cracking a whip, while a delighted merchant at the right throws up both hands, with an overturned bamboo hamper in the foreground and moored boats, a landing stage, the river and willows behind.