With the Empress dowager
A 1907 New York account by Katharine A. Carl, published by the Century Co., of her time at the Chinese court of the Empress Dowager Cixi, illustrated with photographs and drawn portraits of court figures. The pictures show embroidered court robes, elaborate headdresses and palace interiors with carved thrones and ceremonial screens, drawn in fine pen and graphite with soft shading that a designer could borrow for period costume, ornament and decorative pattern work.
