Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisenTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners ship: steamship. – Vintage 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.)
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Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisenTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners ship: steamship. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jokisenTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners ship: steamship.
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Few subjects drew Japanese printmakers of the early 1860s more than the foreign steamships that began calling after the country opened its ports in the 1850s. This sheet, titled *Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jōkisen* ("Foreigners' ship: steamship"), dates to 1861, when Yokohama was a new treaty port and such vessels were a daily sight there. It is signed Hiroshige, but the record cannot say whether Utagawa Hiroshige II or III made it. A pencilled note on the mount links it to Commodore Perry, whose visits in 1853 and 1854 began the opening, so that attribution is worth treating with caution.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 37.3 x 25 cm. (block) 34.5 x 23 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Print created by either Hiroshige II or Hiroshige III. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotation in pencil on mount: Commodore Perry in Japan. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 7; 47623a. Earlier control number: 4162-5. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930 (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Ships--American--Japan--1860-1870. Harbors--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,038 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227689 |
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