Amerikakoku,America,balloon ascension,crowd,Yoshitora Utagawa,Photograph,1865

Title: Amerikakoku
Title Translation: America.
Creator(s): Utagawa, Yoshitora, fl. 1850-1870, artist
Date Created/Published: Japan : Kagaya Kichibei, [1865]
Summary: Japanese triptych print shows view in America of a crowd gathering to watch a balloon ascension.
Notes:
Title from item.
Date from no. 148.
Signature: Yoshitora ga.
Engraving attributed to: Hori Mino.
From series entitled: Images of the western world.
Extensive, unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheets of no. 148.
Printed designs on verso of left panel of no. 150.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print no. 148: 127.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print no. 149: verso of right section: BCL [Bella C. Landauer ownership stamp]; C 318/2; 452 [with Japanese mark]; verso of center section: C 318/2; Japan [stamp]; verso of left section: C 318/2; Japan [stamp].
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print no. 150: verso of left section: BCL [Bella C. Landauer ownership stamp].
Earlier control number: 9942.3-16.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930 (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Nos. 149 & 150 Originally collected by Bella C. Landauer.
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Balloon ascensions--United States--1860-1870.
Carriages & coaches--United States--1860-1870.
Spectators--United States--1860-1870.
Triptychs--Japanese--1860-1870.
Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2002700296/
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