Plate XLIV. A NURSERY MAID AND TWO CHILDREN.

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The annexed are portraits of a female servant, and of a male and female child, which will give a tolerably correct idea of the dresses worn by them respectively. That of the maid servant differs in nothing from her mistress, but in the materials; the latter generally wearing silk, and the one in question cotton. A Chinese woman of the meanest condition would feel herself degraded if not allowed to mutilate her feet.


China—Plate 45

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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