George Henry Mason
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Artworks: 23
Documented Chinese customs and punishments
George Henry Mason was a British army officer, Major in the late 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) raised by the East India Company, 1795, and then Lietenant-Colonel in 1801. Mason had travelled to Canton in 1789. It was one of only two cities in China that outsiders could legally visit at the time, and Mason relished the opportunity to provide "partial instruction and general amusement" about an "exotic" foreign land to a fascinated but parochial audience of armchair tourists in England. He became an author of two influential works, The Costume of China (1800) and The Punishments of China (1801).
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Artworks by this artist (23 total)
- The capital punishment of the cord 1801
- A culprit before a magistrate 1801
- An offender undergoing the Bastinade 1801
- The manner of beheading 1801
- Twisting a man’s ears 1801
- The rack 1801
- Torturing the fingers 1801
- Punishing an interpreter 1801
- Punishmnent of the swing 1801
- The punishment of the wooden collar 1801
- A culprit conveyed to prison 1801
- Punishing a boatman 1801
- A malefactor chained to an iron bar 1801
- Conducting an offender into banishment 1801
- Woman making embroidery 1800
- A culprit conducted to trial 1801
- A malefactor conducted to execution 1801
- Hamstringing a malefactor 1801
- Burning a man’s eyes with lime 1801
- Punishment of the wooden tube 1801