Picture of the Great Naval Battle of Lüshun Port [Port Arthur] (旅順港外大海戦圖)
Picture of the Great Naval Battle of Lüshun Port [Port Arthur] (旅順港外大海戦圖)

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Picture of the Great Naval Battle of Lüshun Port [Port Arthur] (旅順港外大海戦圖),

1904, March 10

Ōkura Kōtō 大倉耕濤, died 1910
Japanese
Meiji era, 1868–1912
2006-60 a-f

Information

Title
Picture of the Great Naval Battle of Lüshun Port [Port Arthur] (旅順港外大海戦圖)
Dates

1904, March 10

Maker
Ōkura Kōtō 大倉耕濤
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e hextaptych); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
sheet (each): 38.7 × 25.1 cm (15 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.) frame: 56.7 × 161 × 4 cm (22 5/16 × 63 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Anne van Biema Collection Fund
Object Number
2006-60 a-f
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Sealed, signed “Kōtō”
Inscription
Cartouche: 旅順港外大海戰圖
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist’s: 耕濤之印, sq. relief, bottom left
Culture
Japanese
Period
Meiji
Type
woodcuts, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
ships, battles, seascapes

–2006 Sebastian Izzard LLC, Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006.

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