Framed Print : The War in China - Shop of the Chinese Baker, Esing (Alum), at Victoria, Hong-Kong, 1857. Creator: Marciano Antonio Baptista
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The War in China - Shop of the Chinese Baker, Esing (Alum), at Victoria, Hong-Kong, 1857. Creator: Marciano Antonio Baptista
The War in China - Shop of the Chinese Baker, Esing (Alum), at Victoria, Hong-Kong, 1857. View...drawn by a Portuguese named Baptista, who is here thought a clever artist, and who was a pupil of Chinery...[of] the house of Esing (properly called Alum) the baker who supplied the bread poisoned with arsenic from which so many people suffered in Hong-Kong, and who, with his father and eight of his workmen, are now on their trial for that crime...Two or three hundred people, altogether, had partaken of the poisoned bread, but no lives had been lost...Private letters from the Chinese Seas, received at Paris, state that Alum had been tried before a Council of War legally constituted, and convicted of an attempt to poison the English Charge d'Affaires and his family. The man was condemned to death and shot...'. In fact Cheong was expelled, and forbidden from ever returning to Hong Kong. From "Illustrated London News", 1857
Media ID 36336870
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Bakers Bakery Bread Contaminated Contamination Hong Kong China Opium Wars Poison Poisoned Poisoning Second Opium War
12"x10" Modern Frame
10x8 Print in an MDF Wooden Frame with 180 gsm Satin Finish Paper. Glazed using shatter proof thin plexi glass. Frame thickness is 1 inch and depth 0.75 inch. Fluted cardboard backing held with clips. Supplied ready to hang with sawtooth hanger and rubber bumpers. Spot clean with a damp cloth. Packaged foam wrapped in a card.
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