ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS

ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS

Six antique color lithograph prints including View from Webster Island, Yedo Bay, Jesuit Convent, Macao, Macao from Penha Hill, Dinner given to the Japanese Commissioners on board U.S.S.F. Powhatan after Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885), and Wrestlers at Yokuhama after W. T. Peters (American, 19th century). 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 9" x 11 3/8" in. All measurements are approximate.