Hand Colored Engraving by T. Allom: The Culture & Preparation of Tea

Workers sort baskets under a red-tiled shelter while a few rest beneath a spreading tree

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1843. It is ink on paper. Orientalism, a genre of art about the East, is generally traced to Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Egypt, which encouraged scholars and artists to visit and document North Africa and the Middle East. Lightly colored, a scene of an open-sided pavilion with a pyramidal red roof, where figures in colored robes work at long tables, with baskets in the foreground and a pale river view at right. Captions sit below. It is 10.5 inches wide and 7.7 high.

Everybody is busy, and the tree is supervising.