Officials posed in a reception hall.

Photographer

Dobson, William Hervie, 1870-1965

Date

• ca. 1897-ca. 1940

Summary

• The lowest seat when bidden to a feast. The couplet on the wall reads, "As for the difficulty of farming, the gentlemen teach it (right); as for the taste of vegetable root, the ministers (left)." The last character of the left line is covered. The hall is well decorated with Chinese paitings and calligraphy. From the reflection in the mirror, the shape of a man in western clothes and his camera on a tripod is also visible.