ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS

ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS

Five antique color lithograph prints including Chief Interpreter Moryamo Yenosky and Take Juro, Interpreter, and Tatsnoski, Second Interpreter after Eliphalet Brown (American, 1816-1886), Chief Temple, Hakodad, Com. Perry Paying His Farewell Visit to the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda after Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885), From an original Japanese drawing, obtained in Simoda, unsigned. All the illustrations are from the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan: performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the United States is a printed history, in 3 volumes, of the Perry Expedition, written by Francis L. Hawks, under the supervision of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, and using the written materials compiled by Perry and his colleagues on the expedition. The series was first presented as a report to the United States Senate, then published commercially, in 1856.

Dimensions: Average 11 1/2" x 9" in. All measurements are approximate.