Raree Show at Lin-sin-choo - Public domain architecture engraving

after a drawing by Thomas Allom, architect and landscape painter, 1804-1872 (artist notes)
Unknown (artist nationality)
engraver (artist role)
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 (original artist)
Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) Drawn by T. Allom. ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Engraved by G. Paterson. ; lower margin: (center) Raree Show at Lin-sin-choo. ; (left, in French) Montre des poupées à Lin-sin-choo. ; (right, in German) Puppenspiel zu Lin-sin-choo. ; (bottom center) THE LONDON PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED ; l. r. (in pencil) Chinese Flute Player ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil 1 50 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/556 (inscription)
Etching and stipple engraving. (medium)
Good condition. Adhesive tape stains at upper left and right corner of sheet. Some very light foxing in margins and on verso. Bottom edge, which was originally the inner gutter from a book, has been trimmed unevenly. The platemark is not visible. (condition)
Source not known. (provenance)
Bamboo flute, Drum, Cymbals (instrument)
19th century (century)
Japanese and Chinese (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.