JOURNEY TO CHINA 8: WOULD YOU MARRY... IN CHINA. A Chinese woman who brings nothing to her husband places the household in difficulties because her clothes are very costly. / A Chinese woman who brings something, places the household in embarrassing circumstances because her clothes cost more. / A Chinese woman who brings many things places the household in misery: her whims devour everything!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled －His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; －His wig [is], because they do not make them; －His boots, because leather is prohibited; －His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..

Tomb Sculpture (Haniwa): Woman Holding a Stick in Her Right Hand

Woman Seated in a Chair

Woman Sitting in a Chair

Administrative execution day. A woman who wraps a chain around her body and resists

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..

(Man Fishing a Woman from TV)

Seated Woman in a Fur Coat

Geisha striking a pose in a striped kimono. A dresser is in her room

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 1: The new Talma cape, thus named because it gives to him who wears it an utterly comic appearance

Seated Woman in a Black Dress

Woman and Child with a Twig-laden Stroller, the Knobelsdorff Bridge in the Background

Bust of a Woman, Head Inclined to the Right

Affectation 8: (He reads a letter) A meeting, it could be from that little Mrs. Giraud!... yes... but perhaps it's from her husband who wants to nab me and give me a thrashing

Woman after a Bath and a Woman Cuddling Her Child from the Series Genre Scenes of the East

[Suspended in an Arch]

Seven Variations of the 'Iroha' Alphabet: 'Ku' as in 'Kumo no Taema'. Role: Narukami (Played as a Woman)

Strangers in Paris 18: The hat that one brings back from Paris: You might well say that that hat will make a great impression in Landerneau!... eighty five francs! it's expensive, duckie... you give yourself marabout stork feathers, but it's I who get plucked!..

The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play －Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: －Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. －The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’

Los Caprichos: Even thus he cannot make her out

Things Suspended in the Sky

IN CHINA 8: A Chinese warrior patrol －having taken too literally the order given them to scout out... [the enemy's movement...]

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 12: Robber of a landlord... who doesn't want to have repairs done for me except in fine weather!..