Album Leaf from Illustrations of Chinese Costumes

This album leaf is a part of a 48-page album that depicts Chinese subjects participating in various aspects of daily life, including government business, daily life, cultural customs, modes of transportation, and corporal punishment. This leaf has an ink and watercolour drawing of two female figures. The woman on the left, labelled as “Tartar Woman”, wears a long pink robe under a blue vest and holds a long, skinny pipe. The more ornately-dressed woman on the right, “Lady of Nankin”, wears a green pleated skirt under an orange skirt with long decorated ribbons. The orange skirt may be a part of her purple robe, which has a green collar and wide sleeves with many ribbons decorating the cuff. She also wears a golden crown, earrings and a gold necklace.