Engraving by W. Purser: Futtypore Sicri in India

Towering gateway presides over a fortified wall while an ox cart idles in front.

This engraving is from England, United Kingdom, and dates to the mid 19th century. It is ink on paper. Thomas Allom, an architect and founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects, illustrated books on China in the 1840s without ever making the trip there himself. Rolling ground rises to a tall pointed gate and a long crenellated wall, with distant hills in haze. In the foreground an ox cart with a long shaft sits beside resting cattle. The caption in capitals runs beneath the plate mark. It is 10.8 inches wide and 8.25 high.

Grand gate, humble cart, and everybody has been waiting a while.