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Album leaf painted with a classroom scene with three children's desks, a teacher's desk and an altar table for worshipping the god of literature, Wenchang. Two boys are depicted reading books, while one boy is standing by the teacher's desk. Watercolour and ink on pith. Artist unknown.
From an album entitled ‘A Chinese Mandarin, Life from the Cradle to the Grave’, brought from Shanghai by Capt. Geo. F. Thomas, of the China Tea Clipper ‘Omba’, which docked at Dover in 1866.