Then consider the etching of a county magistrate judging criminals (picture 5). The terrified expressions of the prisoners, their handcuffs, leg irons, and cangues are all convincingly portrayed. But look at the magistrate's right hand: he's holding the brush in an impossibly awkward manner.
再看縣太爺審犯人，手鐐、腳銬、枷鎖，要皆傳神；聽差的神色慌張，誠屬上作，不過，仔細看看那縣太爺批硃執筆的方式，未免稍稍離了譜（圖五）。