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Image Title: Kita-Amerika Dai Gasshukoku - Jokan Shozo No Utsushi, 1854

Date: 1854.

Summary: Japanese print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of an American naval commander; includes untranslated text of vocabulary.

Notes: Pasted onto mat from a catalog: "No. 69-B Adams, a 'North American.' Capt. Adams was Commander of the U.S.S. Powhatan, one of Admiral Perry's Fleet. If the artist has successfully caught the likeness he was not a notable specimen of manly beauty; or is this the work of an early caricaturist? Large vertical print. Illustrated."

Subjects: Military officers--American--Japan--1850-1860

Original Media: Woodcut print

Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 » more info...

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