The Dowager Empress of China Finish:Stretched Convertibles

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The gentleman

possibly the Ocythoe cranchii [Argonauta hians] described in the same volume of Transactions by William Elford Leach

Commodore of the Bombay Marine

All around are the accoutrements of the playroom

The Dowager Empress of China Finish:Stretched ConvertiblesThe Dowager Empress of China, 1904. The Dowager Empress Cixi (1835 1908) was regent and de facto ruler of China from 1861 until her death, even though her nephew, the Guangxu Emperor, was nominally on the throne from 1875. His wife, the Empress Xiao Ding Jing (1868 1913) is standing in front of the Dowager Empress. A print from The Girl's Own Annual, 12 November 1904.