Oranda Amerika IgirisuTITLE TRANSLATION:Dutch American English. – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Oranda Amerika IgirisuTITLE TRANSLATION:Dutch American English.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Oranda Amerika IgirisuTITLE TRANSLATION:Dutch American English.
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The title names three nationalities, Dutch, American, and English, and the print pairs them as the foreign visitors of its subject line. Kanagaki Robun, a writer of popular comic fiction who later became well known for his Meiji-era satire, supplied the text and design, and the carver Matsushima Seikichi cut the woodblocks. Around 1860, after Japan opened several ports to foreign trade, Yokohama and other treaty ports drew Western merchants, diplomats, and sailors, and Japanese print artists produced many pictures of them. Such prints mixed curiosity with humor, and they are valued today as records of how Japanese artists saw these newcomers.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver.Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35 x 25 cm. (block) 35 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Dutch--Japan--1860. Foreign visitors--English--Japan--1860. Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,587 × 4,481 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227662 |
More from the Japanese Prints collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
