The Dowager Empress of China Finish:Stretched The gentleman

The gentleman

Scene showing a stout man crowned with barley and poppies and bound in a sheaf of barley

Commodore of the Bombay Marine

GROOMBRIDGE

possibly the Ocythoe cranchii [Argonauta hians] described in the same volume of Transactions by William Elford Leach

The Dowager Empress of China Finish:Stretched The gentlemanThe Dowager Empress of China, 1904. The Dowager Empress Cixi (1835 1908) was regent and de facto ruler of China from 1861 until her death, even though her nephew, the Guangxu Emperor, was nominally on the throne from 1875. His wife, the Empress Xiao Ding Jing (1868 1913) is standing in front of the Dowager Empress. A print from The Girl's Own Annual, 12 November 1904.