A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.

Date:
[approximately 1800]
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25230i
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A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Guangzhou] : [approximately 1800]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour on paper

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Watering the young tea plant

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One of a series of twelve scenes of tea cultivation
From around 1750 to the late 1830s, Guangzhou was the only port in China open for foreign trade, making it the likely subject and place of production of this print. Tea was the main product of export, transported by river to Guangzhou, where it was packed before being shipped.

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Wellcome Collection 25230i

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