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these labour intensive work processes did not
chime with reality.

Aussi l’on dit communément qu’il y a plus d’un
million d’ames, qu’il s’y consommé chaque jour
plus de dix mille charges de ris, et plus de mille
cochons. […] King te tching est l’asyle d’une
infinite de pauvres familles qui n’ont point de
quoi subsister dans les villes des environs. […] à
l’entrée de la nuit on croit voir une vaste ville
toute en feu, ou bien une grande sournaise gui a
plusieurs soupiraux. 124

For the Western client, ignorant about what
Fig. 4.62. Flora and b. From album with watercolour on pith
exactly happened in the business of this lucrative
fauna, anonymous, 12 images, 27 x 18.5 cm, paper, 19th century,
merchandise, the different production phases
watercolour on pith inv.no. DvT V.4.12.KL. 24.2 x 20 cm,
were rendered as colourful and idyllic, but had
paper, SAB-City Archi- Tropenmuseum/
little to do with the truth. Clearly, these kinds of
ves and Athenaeum Fig. 4.63.a. and 4.63.b. Nationaal Museum
images were constructed.
Library Deventer Butterflies, insects, van Wereldculturen,
The scholar, poet and imperial painter Lou
a. From set of 5, flowers and fruits inv.nos. TM-3728-514
Shu had already made paintings with images of
1851-1856, 28 x 19.5 cm, (from set of 12), and 3728-525 (in
rice- and silk production in the Song dynasty
inv.no. DvT V.19.1.KL. anonymous, album TM-3728-484).
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119 Till 2015, 116.
Fig. 4.61. Birds and 120 Museum Volkenkunde, Royer Collection: inv.nos. 360-352a to 352f, 360-379a to 379l, 360-380a to 380l,
fishes, anonymous, 360-381a to 381l, 360-382a to 382l, and 360-383a to 383l (total: 2358). Other paintings: inv.nos. 02-842 to 846,
watercolour on pith 87-1, 328-1a to 1l, 328-2a to 2l, 328-3a to 3l, 360-7516a to 7516f, 1239-378a to 378l, 1239-383l to 383t, 2133-1a to 1l
paper, Museum (Sunqua?), 2133-41 to 4l (Sunqua?), and 1299-9a to 9k. The comprehensive Royer Collection warrants a research
Volkenkunde/ project in its own right. Royer’s fish drawings equals the Reeve’s fish drawings collection existing of more than 80
Nationaal Museum van species and in the Museum of Natural History, London. Read more on Leiden University NWO funded research A
Wereldculturen new history of fishes: A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880’ on:
a. From set of 12, https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/new-history-of-fishes and
1830-1865, 21 x 32.5 cm, https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/didi-van-trijp.
inv.no. RV-328-3g. 121 Inv.nos. DvT V.4.KL, DvT V.17, and DvT V.19.
b. From set of 6, c. 122 Inv.nos. 3728-514 to 3728-525.
1800, 32 x 36 cm, Royer 123 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: inv.nos. NG-1981-12-A to 12-D; Tropenmuseum Amsterdam: inv.nos. 3728-490 to
Collection, inv.no. RV- 513, and 3728-514 to 525; Ceramics Museum Princessehof: inv.nos. NO 5485 to 5512, and NO 5513 to 5524; Zeeuws
360-352-b. Museum: inv.no. 3600-Z-8073; Museum Volkenkunde: inv.nos. 328-5a to 5l, 4796-1 to 6, 360-1125, 360-1126, 360-
c. From set of 12, 1128 en 360-1130; Maritime Museum Rotterdam: inv.no. P4423; Wereldmuseum Rotterdam: inv.nos. 4900-1 to 12,
1830-1865, 29 x 20 cm, and 29476-2.
inv.no. RV-2133-5a. 124 D’Entrecolles 1712, 262-267. Translation: It is also commonly reported that more than a million souls live here
d. From set of 9, who daily consume more than ten thousand loads of rice and more than a thousand pigs. [...] Jingdezhen is a refuge
1830-1865, 19 x 26 cm, (asylum) for countless poor families, who cannot find a way of living in the surrounding towns. [...] As night falls one
inv.no. RV-1239-378l. seems to see a vast town all in flames, or a great furnace with many exhalations.