3-052-334 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chinese Imperial Marriage at Pekin: procession of the bride's trousseau, 1872. 'The Illustrations which appear in this week's Number of our Journal, representing some of the pomps and peculiar ceremonial arrangements for the marriage of the young Emperor of China at Pekin, on Oct. 16, form the commencement of a series, designed to put before our readers many characteristic scenes and incidents in several parts of the Chinese Empire. Our special Artist, Mr. William Simpson, commissioned to go from England to China upon this express service, was able to arrive at Pekin a few days before the Imperial Wedding took place, and has furnished us with Sketches received by the last mail, three of which supply the Engravings here brought under notice...[Illustration shows] the daily procession in the week previous to the actual wedding day, carrying the bride's trousseau, her wearing apparel jewels and ornaments, her household furniture, and the immense quantity of costly gifts sent her from every province of China, to her destined home in the Imperial Palace'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.