A woman with kyphosis (spinal curvature), walking with the aid of a stick. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.

Although the person depicted has naturally shaped feet, the wearing of earrings and the unshaved forehead suggests that it is a woman. Possibly she is intended to be from a class which did not practice footbinding, or to have been spared footbinding on account of her disability