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Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, La Pintura, c. 1890s

Félix Martínez, La Jota Manileña, 1886. 

Justiniano Asuncion, “Regional Fashion Plates 001-004,” Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Indiens Yfugaos” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Indiens Tagales pilant du riz” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Métis Espagnols en costume de promenade” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Métis Chinois ou Sangley” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Métis de la haute classe en promenade” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Bisayas sauvages ou des montagnes” from Jean Mallat de Bassilon, Les Philippines (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846)

“Indigena de los alrededorres de Manila” from D. Vicente Barrantes, Las Mujeres Españolas Portuguesas y Americanas (Madrid: Miguel Guijarro, 1876)

“India Chichirica” from D. Vicente Barrantes, Las Mujeres Españolas Portuguesas y Americanas (Madrid: Miguel Guijarro, 1876).

Leo Tolstoy on the Philippines, 15 December 1902: Mr. Herbert Welsh
Dear Sir:
I received your letter, book, and pamphlets. I can not help to admire your activity, but the crimes which have been committed in the Philippines are special cases, which by my opinion will always occur in States governed by violence, or in which violence is admitted as necessary and lawful. Violence, which in itself is a crime, cannot be used to a certain extent. When it is admitted it will always transgress the limits which we would put to it. Deeds as those that have been done in the Philippines, in China, and are daily done in all pseudo-Christian States will continue, till humanity will not accept the chief precepts of Christianity to act on our brethren, not as an animal by violence, but by ‘sweet reasonable’ (as Matthew Arnold termed it), which is the only way to act thoroughly and durably on reasonable beings. Hoping that my bad English will not hinder you to understand what I mean to say, I remain, dear sir,
Yours truly,
Leo Tolstoy
15 Dec., 1902

Adam Cuvillier, Manille, pont sur le Passig, 1840s, National Library of Australia

Louis Choris, Vue de la ville de Manille, Iles Philippines, 1827, National Library of Australia

Woman and Man of Luzon (吕宋國夷人 吕宋國夷婦), from Paintings of Tributary Peoples of the Great Imperial Dynasty of China, mid 18th c., Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Woman and Man of Sulu (蘇禄國夷人 蘇禄國夷婦), from Paintings of Tributary Peoples of the Great Imperial Dynasty of China, mid 18th c., Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Topographia de la ciudad de Manila, capital de las yslas Philipinas… Delineada por D. Antonio Fernandez de Roxas y esculpida por Fr. Hipolito Ximenez. 1717.