Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.

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Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.