Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 7, 1821
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 115
Notes:
The last will and testament of the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) could have been found in an appendix to George T. Staunton, Ta Tsing leu lee: being the fundamental laws, and a selection from the supplementary statutes, of the penal code of China (London, 1810), pp. 477-483. No separate printing (if indeed the Museum copy was printed) has been found.
