Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shozo no utsushi,1854,Japanese,Photo,America

Title: Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shozo no utsushi
Title Translation: People of the United States of North America - portrait of commanding officer.
Date Created/Published: Japan : [s.n.], 1854.
Summary: Japanese print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of an American naval commander; includes untranslated text of vocabulary.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signature: Shinpukan Kioroka(?) in seal.
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.'
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 27; 47623a (white label); LC 2585; text, vocabulary on recto.
Earlier control number: 9615.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Military officers--American--Japan--1850-1860.
Portrait prints--Japanese--1850-1860.
Woodcuts--Japanese--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2002700205/
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