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[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi understeam] – Historic Print

[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi understeam], [ 1853] — historic drawing
[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi understeam], [ 1853]. Historic drawing from the Battleships collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures [Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi understeam] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two steam-powered warships of Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron, the *Susquehanna* and the *Mississippi*, are the subjects of this 1853 watercolor by a Japanese artist. Both ships belonged to the United States Naval Expedition to Japan, which reached Edo Bay that summer to press for trade and for the opening of Japanese ports. Japanese painters of the period were intrigued by these vessels, whose smoke, paddle wheels and sheer size were unlike anything in local shipbuilding. The drawing's attention to the ships' equipment makes it a useful record of how Japanese observers saw the foreign fleet.

Created / published[ 1853]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
GenreWatercolors 1850-1860.
NotesWatercolor by a contemporary Japanese artist. Title devised by Library staff.
SubjectsUnited States Naval Expedition to Japan--(1852-1854)--Equipment & supplies. Steamships--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 485 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117332

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