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[The Japanese Battleships win a great sea battle off Haiyang Island, 1894] – Vintage Print

[The Japanese Battleships win a great sea battle off Haiyang Island, 1894], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[The Japanese Battleships win a great sea battle off Haiyang Island, 1894], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print 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 print captures [The Japanese Battleships win a great sea battle off Haiyang Island, 1894] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[The Japanese Battleships win a great sea battle off Haiyang Island, 1894]

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The title places this sheet at Haiyang Island, the setting of a naval battle in September 1894 usually called the Battle of the Yalu River. It was fought during the First Sino-Japanese War, when the Japanese fleet met the Chinese Beiyang Fleet off the coast of Korea. Japanese printmakers quickly produced colored woodcuts of such engagements for a public hungry for war news, and prints like this one turned the fighting into a patriotic scene of smoke, gunfire and battered hulls. The caption card gives no date, so the 1894 attribution comes from the title and should be treated as unverified.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : woodcut, col.
NotesNoyes Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 800 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176924

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