The sources

The artists
William Alexander
George Henry Mason
William Alexander and George Henry Mason travelled at the end of the eightteenth century to China with a journey of British attache's. As illustrators they produced al lot of prints about that journey. Afterwards a book was published:
Views of the 18th century China
A Dutch edition was published from Atrium:
Beeld van het dagelijks leven in de 18e eeuw

Webdesign
- The webdesign is made in Xhtml and CSS according to guidelines of Dan Cederholm in his excellent book:
"Bulletproof Webdesign"