Details
Creator Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873, artist.
Title [Ships departing from California](Amerikashū Karuharunoyakō shuppan no zu) [graphic].
Publisher Japan
Publisher JAPAN. 1862
Date 1862
Physical Description 1 print : color wood block ; sheet 25 x37 cm (10 x 14.5 in.)
Description Left sheet of a triptych depicting an American ship leaving the “port of California,” (probably San Francisco) bound for Japan. Shows the ship sailing in the water. A number of sailors stand on the deck and three sailors climb on the ship’s rigs. An American flag flies on the mast. In the right foreground, two white men stand on rocks and watch the ship. The print was produced shortly after Japan’s first diplomatic embassy was sent to the United States in 1860.
Notes Title and date based on similar copies held at the Harvard Art Museum and Metropolitan Museum.
Printed signature reading "Gountei Sadahide ga."
Gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Molly Roth.
Biographical / historical note Sadahide Hashimoto or Sadahide Utagawa (1807-1873) was a Japanese artist active in Yokohama and known for his renderings of foreigners, especially Westerners. He was selected as part of the Japanese delegation to the Paris International Exposition of 1867.
Subject Artists -- Japan.
Flags -- American.
Japanese.
Men -- American.
Sailing -- California.
Sailors -- American.
Ships -- California.
AAPI.
Geographic subject San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
California.
Genre Ukiyo-e -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Wood engravings -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Transportation [P.2016.35]
Accession number P.2016.35