An extraordinary mezzotint after a photograph documenting the signing of the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901. It shows from left to right: F. M. Knobel of the Netherlands ; Komura Jutaro of Japan ; G. S. Raggi of Italy ; Maurice Joostens of Belgium ; C. von Walhborn of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; B. J. Cologán of Spain; M. von Giers of Russia ; A. Mumm pour of Germany; Ernest Mason Satow of Great Britain; W. W. Rockhill of the USA; P. Beau of France, Lian Fang in the shadow, a senior Zongli Yamen official, Li Hongzhang, the most eminent power broker in China, Superintendent of the Northern Ports, and Governor General of the province of Chihli, & Yikuang first Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, aka Prince Qing. “450 million taels of fine silver (around 18,000 tonnes, worth around £10billion in todays money) were to be paid as indemnity over a course of 39 years to the eight nations involved.”
Unrecorded. We have not been able to identify the signature of the artist on the plate. E. Meileuramie
