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Ink drawing cutaway of a Chinese restaurant with diners upstairs, cooks preparing food in the kitchen below, and a handwritten label reading Dog & Cat Restaurant.

Chinese dog and cat restaurant: diners are shown eating at a table on the first floor, while food is seen being prepared in the kitchen below. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.

A cutaway ink drawing shows a multi-storey Chinese restaurant with diners seated at a table on an upper floor, and a staircase rising beside them. Below, cooks work in a kitchen beside hanging meat and a stove, while a handwritten label in the lower right reads "Dog & Cat Restaurant".

Artist
Unknown
Date
1800-1899
Medium
Ink drawings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2109 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1899.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Español: Restaurante chino de perros y gatos, dibujo a tinta, China, siglo XIX

Un dibujo a tinta en corte transversal muestra un restaurante chino de varios pisos, con comensales sentados a una mesa en el piso superior y una escalera junto a ellos. Abajo, cocineros trabajan en una cocina con carne colgada y una estufa, mientras una etiqueta escrita a mano en la esquina inferior derecha dice «Dog & Cat Restaurant».

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