Unidentified photographer / artist
1891, 7 March
Amateur Photographers in China: Sketches by the Rev. R. O'Dowd Ross-Lewin, Chaplain R.N.

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The Courtauld Institute of Art
Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100461028
 
"Amateur Photographers in China: Sketches by the Rev. R. O'Down Ross-Lewin, Chaplain R. N." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, March 07, 1891; pg. 311; Issue 2707.
 
1. Messrs. Tripod and Focus go ashore from a river steamer.
 
2. They decide to photograph a party of natives sleeping in a field.
 
3. The Chinamen, awakening and alarmed, take flight with yells of terror.
 
4. The mob of hostile peasantry is kept at bay, dreading the levelled camera as a new kind of artillery.
 
5. But they drive some of their "water buffaloes," good beasts when yoked to a plough, in a fresh attack on the foreign intruders.
 
6. Messrs. Tripod and Focus, leave their camera to destruction, take refuge up a tree.
 
7. Ransomed by paying away all their dollars, they are permitted to embark in safety. China does not yet appreciate every art of civilisation!
 
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