Scenes of Service from a small album known as 'Chinese Drawings: Court and Society'; showing contemporaneous style and fashion at the Qing Court.

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China; ruling from 1644 to 1912. Qing rulers were of the Jurchen Aisin Gioro clan; a nomadic tribe that originated northeast of the Great Wall in contemporary Northeastern China.

Over the course of its reign; the Qing became highly integrated with Chinese culture; learning Chinese and participating in rituals. The imperial examinations continued and Han civil servants administered the empire alongside Manchu ones.