[American sailor drinking] – Vintage Print
![[American sailor drinking], [ca. 1854] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a86f525c2f82-L.webp)
(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 [American sailor drinking] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few images from the period show the arrival of Westerners in Japan through the eyes of Japanese artists as directly as this color woodcut. It belongs to a body of ukiyo-e prints made around 1854, when Commodore Matthew Perry's naval expedition was anchored in Edo Bay and Japanese artists were turning out large numbers of pictures about the foreign visitors. The subject is an American sailor pictured drinking, a detail that reflects the curiosity and caricature with which Japanese printmakers portrayed the crews of the black ships. Woodblock prints of this kind were produced for a broad urban audience and often mixed observation with humor.
| Created / published | [ca. 1854] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other information based on entry for item in exhibition catalog. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 103, p. 166. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | United States Naval Expedition to Japan--(1852-1854) Sailors--American--Japan--1850-1860. Eating & drinking--Japan--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,596 × 4,488 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221925 |
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