Eliphalet Brown
1853-1854
Eliphalet Brown, Jr. and assistants making a daguerreotype of a courtesan
[The Black Ship Scroll]

Woodblock print, coloured
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Location of this version to be determined
 
John W. Dower, "Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan (1853-1854), Facing West" (MIT Visualizing Culture)
(Accessed: 26 April 2015)
 
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_essay05.html
 
Detail from the 1854 “Black Ship Scroll,” variant versions of this image are held by Honolulu Academy of Art, Japan Society of Northern California, and Ryosenji Treasure Museum
 
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